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North Dakota finds itself at 672 deaths per million making it 34th in the country when it comes to COVID-related deaths, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
The project found that when it comes to COVID-19 data, people have been looking at decontextualized data, which is causing hysteria like children staying out of school and businesses shutting down.
North Dakota deaths and hospitalizations have not followed the same path as case increases and, instead, the state has slightly below 400 people in hospitals with a daily death peak , which isn’t anywhere near increased case numbers.
“North Dakota is experiencing a surge in cases,” the commentary states. “Hospitalizations are just shy of 400/million. which makes hospitalizations appx 1/3 lower than Massachusetts' peak, and 60% lower than New York's. Deaths however have peaked at 13/day/million, 1/2 Massachusetts' peak, and 1/3 that of New York.
“Additionally, hospitalizations seem to be flattening, even as deaths decline. This despite case counts that are stratospheric. Despite unquestionably seeing a surge now, North Dakota enjoys the 4th lowest unemployment at 4.4%. It is worth remembering that these numbers still pale in comparison to those of Massachusetts and New York at their peaks, when their politicians assured the world that they were not overwhelmed.”
Since Sept. 15, there has been a significant increase in testing for COVID-19 at 55 percent, which has also led to an increase in positive cases, leading many to assume the country is heading into a third wave of infections and deaths.
Emily Burns with The Pragmatist writes that it’s important to put the new numbers into context so that people will make wise decisions regarding what to do about the pandemic. She writes that in May, cases were tracked at nearly the same as hospitalizations. She notes that deaths and hospitalizations are more reliable data when tracking than cases are.
With COVID-19 testing up 70 percent since the second wave, Burns points out that the surge in testing is responsible for the increased number of new cases seen across the nation, not an increased infection rate many have been led to believe.
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