What she does not mention is that South Dakota has led the nation – and world - in Covid deaths per capita, all due to her disastrous handling of this pandemic. On our worst day, we had a little over 600,” Noem earlier this month told the crowd at CPAC, a conservative political conference, as though that was some kind of victory. By her own admission, Dr Anthony Fauci - who has led the federal government’s response to Covid-19 - warned her what was coming.“Now Dr Fauci, he told me on my worst day, I’d have 10,000 patients in the hospital.
