Guerrette wrong about COVID restrictions
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In an interview with the paper, William Guerrette, candidate for state Senate, states regarding COVID safeguards, “If you measure the states with the highest restrictions … states that shut everything down and destroyed livelihoods are doing no better than states that didn’t do that at all.”
I looked at that measure and can say that Guerrette is totally wrong. I don’t know where he gets his info but I rely on the New York Times, which reports data from state and local public health agencies.
Here’s the latest data on COVID cases per 100,000 in population. States that did nothing: South Dakota, 12,713; North Dakota, 13,107; South Carolina, 10,060.