1 In Every 800 North Dakota Residents Now Dead From Covid

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/12/01/1-in-every-800-north-dakota-residents-now-dead-from-covid/

Jemima McEvoy

Dec 1, 2020,02:46pm EST

Just two weeks after joining the growing list of states where at least one in every 1,000 residents has died from coronavirus-linked causes, North Dakota’s grim statistic has escalated: as of Tuesday, one in every 800 North Dakotans has been claimed by Covid-19.

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North Dakota did not institute a mask mandate until November, when the state’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum—who emphasized the importance of a “light touch” from the government throughout the pandemic—declared that the state’s “situation has changed.” White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx described the North Dakota’s Covid-19 protocols and mask usage as the worst she’d seen anywhere in the country when she visited the month prior. However, despite some opposition in the state, Carnegie Mellon University’s COVIDcast project, which tracks mask usage across the U.S., reports that nearly 90% of North Dakotans are now wearing masks.

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