Topline In a crisis exacerbated by a shortage of healthcare workers and a lack of virus-curbing measures from the state’s Republican leadership, North Dakota—last week reporting the highest Covid-19 mortality rate in the world—has now seen 1 in every 1,000 residents die from the virus. Medical staff treat a patient in a COVID-19 intensive care unit. Getty Images Key Facts North Dakota reached the morbid milestone on Tuesday, reporting 26 new deaths, which brought the state’s total to 769 out of a population of roughly 762,000, according to the 2019’s census estimate. A day earlier, analysis published by the Federation of American Scientists showed that last week North Dakota had the highest Covid-19 mortality rate of any other… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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