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South Dakota has suffered more than the vast majority of states since the coronavirus pandemic hit. Though it’s one of the least populous states in the nation, its Covid-19 per capita death rate is the eighth highest in the nation. Its per capita case rate is even worse: number two in the United States, after neighboring North Dakota.
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I just want something good to come from all of this.
Look, it has been a horrendous year. More than half a million Americans dead, tens of millions fighting illness, high unemployment, mental health consequences abounding. the list could go on and on.
I’ve written about all of those things, and dozens of other topics, since the pandemic changed our world last March. And now that the calendar has flipped to March 2021, it’s a good time to think about what we can learn from this whole ordeal.
I’m not referring to the lessons specific to this pandemic: what coronavirus treatments work and which ones don’t, that you should avoid choir practice when you’re sick, and so on. I mean the ones that will be applicable for making a better America, a better Utah, moving forward in sickness and in health.
Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths in Maryland are going down and vaccinations are going up, but the public still needs to be vigilant to end the pandemic, experts say.
Elizabeth Warren s plan for a 2% tax on wealth over $50 billion is unworkable, over-reaching, and morally wrong, if you listen to a trio of people who d have to pay it.
Warren has proposed paying for a Medicare for All health care system by putting a 2% tax on wealth over $50 billion and an. Read More.