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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Covid-19 is surging across the United States, just in time for cold weather and major holidays. North Dakota is doing particularly badly. Vermont may offer hope. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Vox Creative.

0:07.0

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0:11.5

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0:20.5

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0:23.0

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0:40.0

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0:43.0

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0:46.0

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1:06.0

2020 has been a carnival of anxieties from election to pandemic to protests back to election, back to pandemic, back to election.

1:15.0

COVID-19 is once again top of mind across the United States and the planet as much of us are heading into the cold winter months and some of the headliner holidays and the please to refrain from travel abound, especially in the United States where Thanksgiving usually brings the most domestic travel of the year.

1:35.0

With so much at risk across the country, we thought we'd take a look at how two states are handling this pandemic very differently today.

1:44.0

One's doing a relatively great job Vermont and then there's North Dakota.

1:49.0

North Dakota has held the unwanted title of most COVID deaths in new cases per capita for really most of the last two months.

1:58.0

North Dakota now has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate in the world according to new analysis in the world mortality rate people dying from this.

2:10.0

And then about 65% of the COVID deaths that have happened in the state have happened since October 1st.

2:16.0

So the last two months have been really devastating.

2:20.0

Just this week in North Dakota we heard that some facilities are running critically low on supplies and that nurses are being asked to transition and work in other units for which there hasn't been time for orientation.

2:38.0

And for adequate preparation or training for that.

2:43.0

There are two really core issues here. There's the issue in nursing homes and obviously that's a massive issue because most of the state's deaths come in nursing homes as they did during New York City's outbreak during Washington State's outbreak in the beginning.

2:58.0

And then the second really core issue is there is a severe strain on hospitals due to sort of this intense shortage of healthy available nurses.

3:09.0

In North Dakota hospital staffing shortages are so severe the state made the controversial call to allow healthcare workers who have tested positive for COVID-19 but are not showing symptoms to continue to work in COVID units.

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