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Virus testing sites
Medical authorities say every test helps the community stay safe and stay open.
Symptoms can include fever, coughing, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, headache, muscle or joint pains, nausea, diarrhoea, vomiting, loss of sense of smell, altered sense of taste, loss of appetite and fatigue.
Testing clinics on the Mornington Peninsula are at Eleanora House at the front of the Rosebud Hospital, in the clinic car park at Atticus Health Medical Clinic, Hastings, by appointment only, and at Rosebud Respiratory Clinic at the Rosebud Skin Cancer Centre. Tests are by appointment only.
Frankston Hospital, on the corner of Yuille Street and Hastings Road, is also offering tests.
Virus testing sites
Medical authorities say every test helps the community stay safe and stay open.
Symptoms can include fever, coughing, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, headache, muscle or joint pains, nausea, diarrhoea, vomiting, loss of sense of smell, altered sense of taste, loss of appetite and fatigue.
Testing clinics on the Mornington Peninsula are at Eleanora House at the front of the Rosebud Hospital, in the clinic car park at Atticus Health Medical Clinic, Hastings, by appointment only, and at Rosebud Respiratory Clinic at the Rosebud Skin Cancer Centre. Tests are by appointment only.
Frankston Hospital, on the corner of Yuille Street and Hastings Road, is also offering tests.
KNBN NewsCenter1
February 5, 2021
In working with Tribal partners, the changes will be implemented starting Monday, February 8, 2021.
The schedule for the COVID vaccine is being opened up to the community, meaning if you meet the established criteria, then you can:
Phone to schedule an appointment
Present to a mass vaccination clinic at the Rosebud Hospital every Thursday
Present when the clinics are scheduled in your community
The health service will continue to focus on 1a, 1b, and 1c with high risk health conditions, but will open the schedule to any person that would like the COVID vaccine and meets the criteria listed below.
Initially the death and suffering driven by the COVID-19 virus seemed far away from the Plains of South Dakota.
Like the news of wars and natural disasters from distant foreign places, it seemed like a big city problem where people live chock-a-block in high rises and ride densely packed mass transit.
“It was hard to fathom what people went through back in the spring,” says Angel Wilson, nurse practitioner at the Rosebud Hospital on the Rosebud Reservation. “I could read about it and say how horrifying it was for them, but it was still far away.”
Now, however, the virus has arrived on South Dakota’s eight reservations, in a state that in recent weeks routinely tops the list of COVID-19 hotspots. And it has hit hard, overwhelming hospitals and requiring some patients to be flown out of state, often with limited means for returning home.