Chinese Flu Pandemic Update -- North Dakota -- October 26, 2020

Color coding for this map needs to be updated, look at the legend for active cases:

• current:
• 1 - 4 (is this category even needed any more?)
• 5 - 9 (ditto)
• 10 - 29 (ridiculous)
• and then look at this spread:
• 30 - 99 (why not 1 - 100?)
• and then this:
• 100 - 499 (are you kidding?)
• 500+
• it seems almost anything would be better, including:
• 1 - 99
• 100 - 199
• 200 - 299
• 300 - 399
• 400-  499
• 500 - 599
• 600+

And why is it not "per capita"?

Deaths:

• four core Bakken counties: 31
• Cass (Fargo): 84
• Burleigh (Bismarck): 76
• Morton (Mandan): 50
• Ward (Minot): 35
• Stark (Dickinson): 34
• and then look at Grand Forks with 18 -- lowest per capita in the state among the "big" counties

Nationwide, deaths/one million population:

• North Dakota, #21 (the lower the number the worse)
• South Dakota, #31 (much, much better than North Dakota)

Per capita, population of North Dakota: 775,000

• total positive / 775,000 = 4.9%
• herd immunity: 70%
• for herd immunity: a long way to go
• deaths per positive case: 461 / 38,241 = 1.2%
• chance of being hospitalized: 1,437 / 38,241 = 3.8%
• if you test positive, the likelihood you will not be hospitalized: 96% chance