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The mayor of Fargo, North Dakota, is a medical doctor. He reveals how he's wrestling COVID-19 outbreaks in the state's largest city.

Fargo, North Dakota Mayor, Dr Tim Mahoney speaks to Sailors present at the USS Robalo wreath laying ceremony held at the Lindenwood Park, during Fargo Navy Week, July 23, 2018.North Dakota has experienced one of the biggest COVID-19 outbreaks the US has seen since the start of the pandemic.

requiring people to wear face coverings while indoors with people from outside their personal householdsNorth Dakota became the first state to surpass 100 cases per 100,000 people in October. It is now among the majority of US states that have implemented rules requiring people to wear face coverings. There is, however, no penalty for not doing so.

SA: Dr. Deborah Birx criticized Dakotans in October for having what she said was "the poorest mask use in the country." What's your response to that, and do you think Fargo could change that? TM: When we first started, we thought we were lucky. We thought we outsmarted this virus, which of course we didn't, but part of what drives our numbers to be so high - we do contact tracing. And we're trying to test people that might be positive. We're just a small state with 770,000 people. So we're doing more testing for capita than any place in the country, but we're having a tendency to test more high-risk people. So you're testing, contact tracing.

Contact tracers work at Harris County Public Health contact tracing facility, Thursday, June 25, 2020, in Houston.SA: There were reports recently that there are only two staffed ICU beds available in Fargo. How is the city addressing that shortage? TM: What we found is a lot of people were scared to go to the hospital and they delayed care and treatment. So we saw people with cardiac disease, cancers, and such who delayed them for three to six months. And as healthcare providers, we decided we never wanted to have that happen again because you had people who actually had worse disease by the time they got treated. Normally, what we'd go after is orthopedic — you can have your knee or shoulder done later.

 

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“businesses now kind of blame the mayor for saying you got to wear a mask in their business. So they don't really irritate their client. It's more that, well, the mayor says you got to do it, so you gotta do it. ...compliance went from 30-40% to 80-90%.” This helps business+ppl!

kevincramer don't u think all those who do NOT practice social distancing or wear a mask s/b denied hospital aid, or do u think it's ok to deny Covid-19 exists? yr answer obvious! more interesting, how some1 as incompetent as yourself is even a senator? that's ez, u live n ND

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