A Surge in South Dakota

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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South Dakota has had one of the worst spikes of Covid-19 cases in the country, with the positivity rate now climbing above 50%. And still, the state has never instituted a mask mandate or full lockdown. CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to Dr. Tom Dean, a family physician in a rural part of the state, about how his community is grappling with this latest outbreak. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	No where has the disease spread more than in the Dakotas, each with more new cases per
0:06.5	capita than anywhere else in the country, even outpacing the spring surge in New York,
0:11.9	according to figures from the CDC.
0:14.8	Over the last several weeks, North and South Dakota have had some of the worst spikes in
0:19.5	COVID-19 cases the country has seen so far.
0:23.3	The positivity rate in South Dakota is now over 50%.
0:28.1	It's more than 10 times the rate the World Health Organization says is caused for concern,
0:33.2	which is only 5%.
0:35.2	White House coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx recently visited North
0:39.7	Dakota.
0:40.7	As we were here and we were in your grocery stores and in your restaurants and frankly
0:46.9	even in your hotels, this is the least use of masks that we have seen in retail establishments
0:55.1	of any place we have been.
0:57.2	US Certain General Jerome Adams also visited the region earlier this week.
1:01.8	Here he is at a newly open testing site in Rapid City, South Dakota.
1:06.9	You really shouldn't need a mandate to do the right thing for your community, for your
1:12.8	family and for your friends.
1:15.4	As members of the federal government step in to try to combat the surges in the Dakotas,
1:20.4	some state officials including South Dakota Governor, Kristi Nome, have made the task
1:24.9	more difficult by opposing mask mandates or any kind of lockdown.
1:30.1	The only reason you know who I am today is because the Liberals have been busy kicking
1:35.7	me in the head for all the decisions I've made for my people in South Dakota.
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