Mentally exhausted but hopeful due to the availability of COVID-19 vaccines, Yanktonâs front-line medical workers talk about the fight that, for at least one of Yanktonâs Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses, quickly became personal.
Since the spring, the ICU at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital (ASHH) in Yankton has basically become the COVID unit, Carrie Heine â a nurse for 41 years, of which 30 have been spent in the ASHH ICU â told the Press & Dakotan.
âI donât think the community realized that we were already treating COVID patients back in April,â she said. âThat was when we started hearing the stories about health-care workers dying. It became very real.â
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South Dakota recorded 41 new deaths related to COVID-19 â including two in Yankton County and one in Charles Mix County â in Thursdayâs daily update from the South Dakota Department of Health (DOH).
In Nebraska, 40 new deaths were reported by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) late Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Yankton received its first shipment of the Moderna COVID vaccine and saw its first injections on the morning of Christmas Eve.
South Dakotaâs new deaths raised the state toll to 1,430, of which 484 have occurred in December, an increase of 51%.
The state also reported 500 new infections.
Yankton Countyâs deaths raised its toll to 25, of which 16 have been recorded in December. Seven deaths have been reported in the last week.
1945-2020
William N. âBillâ Jennewein, 75, of Yankton, South Dakota, passed away on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton from complications of COVID-19 virus.
A private family Mass of Christian Burial was held Wednesday, Dec. 16, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Yankton with the Rev. Fr. Larry Regynski as celebrant. Burial was at Sacred Heart Cemetery with military honors accorded by Ernest Bowyer VFW Post 791 Honor Guard and SDARNG Honor Guard.
Online condolences may be made at: www.opsahl-kostalfuneralhome.com. Arrangements are under the direction of Opsahl-Kostel Funeral Home and Crematory in Yankton.
Bill was born April 19, 1945, in Olympia Washington to William P. and Evelyn (Bruning) Jennewein, both of Breda, Iowa. After his fatherâs discharge from the Army the family returned to Breda, where Bill attended elementary school and graduated from St. Bernard Catholic High School in 1963. During these years Bill was active in Boy Scou