Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "'This is premature ... we have not finished counting votes': South Dakota governor | ABC News" video.

Based on 2010 census the urbanization rate in South Dakota is 57% so similar to say South Africa if we assume that urbanisation has increased by say 10% in the last 10 years. South Africa is at 330 deaths per million and South Dakota 606 per million ( source worldometer) . It's far to say South Africa is a low to middle income country. It's a pity people seem to be dying more quickly than she can keep track. She did however take responsibility saying that she liked the ability for the state to manage the situation, so credit where it's due. In Australia our worst state performance Victoria is around 115 deaths per million and far more urbanized. Some might say unfair to pick an African country because probably more developed than South Dakota , so Nicaragua has a similar urbanisation rate and it 24 deaths per million. I looked up urbanisation rate and didn't cherry pick it was a coincidence possibly. South Dakota has failed badly given it's demographics and assuming it is located in a high income country makes it look particularly bad.
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Correct idea but urbanisation rate is better and also consider that New York City is a large city unlike whatever South Dakota has.
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@thomasgrabkowski8283 there is some truth to what you say as in that applies to some poor countries and in the US Post mortem tests are probably performed now because the detection rate would be about the same as South Africa which was one of my examples , the percentage of tests positive gives a rough idea of proportion of cases detected, if that number is below 1% then 90% or more of cases are likely detected. The US like South Africa is around 7% positivity.
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