COVID Increasing, Straining Local Hospitals

COVID Increasing, Straining Local Hospitals

Covid-19 infections continue at a high rate across most of South Dakota, putting a strain on local hospitals.

Avera Sacred Heart President Doug Ekeren says the Omicron variant is challenging the health care system significantly, especially at Avera Sacred Heart…

Ekeren adds that Avera needs the public’s help to stop the spread of COVID…

Yankton County has a sixty five percent vaccination rate, which is about higher than the fifty four percent of those eligible in the state that have been vaccinated against Covid-19.