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Federal health officials announced Monday a $230 million deal to expand the use of a non-prescription at-home COVID-19 test. Latest COVID-19 news.

Rates of both confirmed and fatal COVID-91 cases are highly uneven across the nation. The county with the worst rate of fatal cases is once again Jerauld County, South Dakota.

New daily confirmed COVID-19 cases in America have risen sharply in the past few weeks, taking counts to record levels. For several days in the past month, new confirmed cases have risen above 250,000 a day. Yesterday, according to the Microsoft Bing COVID-19 Tracker, cases rose by 283,322 to 22,049,452. The next three months will […]

Nursing home outbreak leaves Jerauld County with one of the highest COVID-19 death rates in the nation. Written By: Nick Sabato | × Physician Tom Dean sits next to a picture of his parents, Harold and Betty, who died in a COVID-19 outbreak at Weskota Manor Avera in Wessington Springs. (Nick Sabato / Republic) WESSINGTON SPRINGS — In a house set halfway up one of Jerauld County’s many rolling hills, Tom Dean can see nearly the entire city of Wessington Springs from his front...