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New COVID-19 variant emerging in the U.S.

South Dakota Braces for Another COVID-19 Strain The number of cases of COVID-19 in South Dakota are dropping but a new threat is looming as health officials are seeing a new variant which is coming out of the United Kingdom making its way through the United States. An update from the South Dakota Department of Health states there were 174 new COVID-19 cases reported along with six new deaths. What has officials concerned is the U.K. strain has hit at least 28 states here in the U.S. According to Dakota News Now, South Dakota and North Dakota have yet to see any cases of the European strain.

Print article They all started in the same place, with no one immunized, no stockpiles of vaccine and no choice but to dive in immediately with perhaps the most high-stakes public health campaign in American history. Seven weeks later, the nation’s states are all racing to deliver a potentially lifesaving coronavirus defense to millions of arms. But some are having far more success than others. In the states moving fastest, up to 1 in 7 people had received at least their first injection as of Tuesday, according to data compiled by The Washington Post. At the other end of the rankings, it...

South Dakota among many states experiencing mild flu season amid pandemic

In The Moment … January 27th, 2021 Show 979 Hour 2 South Dakota is one of the nation's leaders in distribution and administration of the approved COVID-19 vaccines. Providers say they are poised to do more -- once more vaccine doses are available to the state. But South Dakotans want to know: when will the federal government provide those doses? Are there ways to increase production of safe and effective vaccines now two options have been FDA approved? South Dakota Secretary of Health Kim Malsom-Rysdon returns to In the Moment today, alongside physician leaders representing the state's thre...