Anyone 16 or older in South Dakota is now eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine, and one of the state’s leading experts in the field hopes everyone takes advantage of this.
Vice-President of Avera Medical Group Dr. David Basel says it’s time for younger people in South Dakota to get vaccinated.
Basel says the hospitalization rates for senior citizens in South Dakota have dropped over the past few months.
Active cases of the coronavirus have gone up steadily in South Dakota over the past few weeks, but the number of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 has decreased greatly this spring.
