South Dakota is #3 in cases per capita and #10 in deaths per capita in the US. It's August-November stretch was just brutal, peaking with a death rate of 200/1M for the week of Nov 16.
Sure it's raw numbers may not have been as dramatic as NY, a state with over 20x as many people, but it definitely was not example setter.
Sure it's raw numbers may not have been as dramatic as NY, a state with over 20x as many people, but it definitely was not example setter.
Edit: My numbers are based on data I collected from NYT, but Worldometers shows SD as #2 in cases per million and #9 in deaths per million: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us