COVID-19 hospitalizations recently peaked in the Midwest, where the expansion of new cases is the worst in the country.
But that’s not the message of a number of Republican governors in the region, who are looking to find a positive side in physical fitness knowledge as epidemics multiply in their states.
“In South Dakota, we haven’t adopted a unique technique for everyone and the effects have been incredible,” Gov. Kristi Noem told lawmakers in her state, which, according to Johns Hopkins University, is at the time in the country for new cases per capita.
The governor of Oklahoma has been very positive about advances in opposition to the virus, despite figures compiled through public fitness experts and a White House working group. The governor of North Dakota has described the positivity of testing for his state of good fortune, even though his rate of new instances outweighs the country.
In some cases, the rhetoric reflects that of President Donald Trump, who continues to minimize the threat of the virus even after being hospitalized by COVID-19, and this worries public fitness experts involved about a flu season that could worsen the effects of the epidemic.
“Public aptitude is based on thousands of individual actions . . . For there to be a behavioral replacement, you must accept knowledge and guidelines as true,” said Dr. Thomas Tsai, brigham and Women’s Hospital surgeon and assistant professor at Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health.
Most Republican governors in the worsening Midwest region have refused to enact restrictions across the state or reversed those imposed because of the pandemic.
Trump, who tweeted “Don’t be afraid of Covid” as he left the hospital, applauded Noem for his speech to the Legislature last week, where he defended his refusal to include a residence order or other restrictions.
But new cases and positive check rates in South Dakota are among the country’s or nearly. The number of other people hospitalized in the state due to COVID-19 peaked again last week, but Noem prefers to point out that only about 10 percent of hospitalizations in the state are due to the virus.
Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota, recognizes that his state’s numbers are moving in the direction as they reach new heights for active and recently displayed cases, as well as hospitalizations, but also boasts that the state’s positivity controls remains in the 7% range.
“It’s a good fortune compared to many other states that have never been able to have such a low positivity rate and open up their economies,” Burgum said. “If you say that among the states that are doing a wonderful job, be some of the criteria you look at. “
In Iowa, which has eased its past restrictions on coronavirus, COVID-19 hospitalizations also reached a record last week. However, Kim Reynolds advocated the state’s resolve to reopen bars and send students to the study rooms without the need for a mask.
“The president is right, too. We can’t let COVID-19 dominate our lives,” Reynolds said.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said he sees his state progressing, even though a White House working group recently ranked him in the “red zone” for his maximum rate of new cases and positive evidence. his wife was diagnosed on September 23, or they recovered.
“The fight is over, however we are on the right track and we will get away with it,” Parson said in a video posted Sept. 30.
Some governors even reject Trump’s own advisers for conducting more brutal tests of their states. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt criticized the White House Coronavirus Working Group after saying that transmission of the main network had caused “many preventable deaths” in Oklahoma.
“The governor argues that Oklahoma has behaved much more than the country in total in terms of protecting our most vulnerable, and the White House with that statement,” Stitt’s workplace said.
Governors who test positive for their states’ worst-case scenario face few political consequences to do so, and even face tensions on the part of the right to lift the remaining restrictions. This is the case in Arkansas, where an organization of Republican lawmakers is suing to invalidate a masking order and other directives imposed through Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson.
Hutchinson has also been criticized through Democrats, teams of teachers, and others who say the governor has sent combined messages about the severity of the state epidemic.
“I sense the motivation and desire to change things, but I would like to see a greater sense of urgency,” said Democratic Sen. Greg Leding.
Hutchinson cited progress in the state’s positivity tests, but stated that he wants it in other spaces like hospitalizations and the rate of new cases. Hutchinson continued to resist calls to undo a component of the state’s reopening, saying he relied more on non-public accountability.
“We are Republicans, we are conservatives and we don’t need to create business restrictions, we don’t need to create mandates, and the only way to get ahead of this crisis is to just make sure we have individual discipline,” Hutchinson said. his last week.
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DeMillo reported from Little Rock, Ark. Associated Press editors Sean Murphy and Ken Miller in Oklahoma City, Jim Salter in St. Louis. Louis, David Kolpack in Fargo, North Dakota, Scott McFetridge in Des Moines and Stephen Groves in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, contributed to this report
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