North Dakota got a mask mandate, South Dakota didn't. COVID-19 cases have plummeted in both
At the worst moment of the pandemic, North Dakota and South Dakota took divergent policy paths. Since then, South Dakota's COVID-19 curve as emerged as a kind of Rorschach test for the effectiveness of mask mandates: Opponents of mandates have pointed to South Dakota's decline as proof that the North Dakota policy was an unnecessary overreach, while advocates point to differing rates of decline between the two states as evidence of the opposite.
Source: inforum.com
