Here's the numbers on South Dakota: https://doh.sd.gov/news/coronavirus.aspx#SD https://doh.sd.gov/news/coronavirus.aspx#SD You can see mortality rate plummete

Here's the numbers on South Dakota: https://doh.sd.gov/news/coronavirus.aspx#SD https://doh.sd.gov/news/coronavirus.aspx#SD You can see mortality rate plummeted shortly after the pandemic started and that it has stayed flat or dropped even in the face of the recent rise in cases. While cases have gone up finally in South Dakota, the mortality rate is still less than a 10th of what it was in the beginning. So meanwhile, they were open for 9 months. That is well beyond the incubation period for this virus so what changed to cause the spike? They are still ranked 40th in terms of deaths per million by state. The worst states have been New Jersey and New York, and Massachusetts, by far, who failed to protect their nursing home and assisted living patients early on in pandemic. Florida is completely open right now. Not only is there no mask orders, there are no restrictions on populations or businesses. Deaths per day are down and mortality rate is down: https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/#latest-stats https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/#latest-stats. New cases flat.