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Expect the Pandemic to get Worse Before it gets Better

Expect the Pandemic to get Worse Before it gets Better

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Governor Kristi Noem says thirty to seventy percent of the people in South Dakota could be infected with the coronavirus. She also says their models show the state could need up to five thousand hospital beds when the infection peaks in mid-June. The state currently has about twenty six hundred.

Sanford Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Allison Suttle says the models help them plan…

Suttle agrees the worst is still ahead..

Suttle says she has seen remarkable reactions…

Federal health officials are also warning that the next few weeks could be the hardest the country has yet seen.

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