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April 19, 2020 - 8:05pm | By Chris Larson
West Fargo Mayor Bernie Dardis says that the experts were right.
“Despite the fact that we don’t know as much about the virus as we’d like to, they (the experts) were right,” Dardis said Sunday on The Nightly Review with Steve Hallstrom. “Experts knew what the ramifications were going to be with the virus.”
He says that the number that surprises him is the negative case number in North Dakota. But, he said, the reality is only 13,630 people have been tested in North Dakota, out of nearly 800,000 North Dakota residents.
But, Dardis warns, the worst isn’t in North Dakota yet.
“It’s still relatively early for us,” he said. “We haven’t hit our peak yet.”
Dardis says the country has responded to the needs of the international community early on.
“It’s part of our nature that we do what we need to do to try help people around the world,” he said.
Even though early modeling has the peak coming at the end of May, Dardis says, “the reality is part of the result of this is in our hands.”
Dardis applauds North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Lieutenant Governor Brent Sanford.
“There is nobody in the state studying the data closer than the Governor and Lieutenant Governor,” he said.
