re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

6866 deaths in a MN population of 5.64 million = 0.001217.
1924 deaths in a SD population of 884,659 = 0.002175.

Population of US = 328.2 Million.

If overall US matched MN rate then 399543 deaths.
If overall US matched SD rate then 713786 deaths.

State policies mattered.