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Questions swirl around who qualifies next to get COVID-19 vaccine in South Dakota Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch © Stephen Perez/Argus Leader Katherine Porter, 80, receives her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Sanford Imagenetics in Sioux Falls on Jan. 18 South Dakota health officials and medical providers have been near the top of the nation in administering COVID-19 vaccines as they become available, but a significant new challenge awaits as the state moves into a much larger, more difficult-to-define population of people who may qualify for a shot. That upco...

   The number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the way down in Woodbury County. But local officials say people still need to take the novel coronavirus seriously. Siouxland District Health reported ten new cases on Monday and a 14-day test positivity rate of 13.3%. That’s down more than three percentage points from a week ago. Sioux City’s two hospitals are treating 42 patients, that’s a decrease of about 9% from last Monday and substantially less than the record-high of 108 patients set on December 1st. Credit Siouxland District Health There were 200 new cases reported...

South Dakota health officials say the state on Monday is launching the next phase of coronavirus vaccinations.

Next COVID-19 Group, Group 1D to Receive Vaccine The next group of South Dakota residents who will receive the coronavirus vaccine are people who are 65 years of age and older. The older individuals in this group will be at the top of the list. This is the fourth group of COVID-19 vaccinations as frontline healthcare workers and long-term care facility healthcare workers were the first group. Then came long-term care residents, public health workers, and those in EMS and law enforcement. According to a recent report from Dakota News Now, Group-D will now begin vaccination for those most elder...

Group 1D will be administered COVID-19 vaccine Monday in South Dakota © Provided by Rapid City KOTA-TV KOTA RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - As South Dakota continues to be among the top states in the nation in vaccine rollout, health experts say they plan on moving into the fourth phase of the state’s vaccination plan on Monday. Group 1D, or the fourth group to receive the vaccine, consists of those over the age of 65, and with two or more underlying health conditions. However, it’s the older and more at-risk population who will get the vaccine first. “We will be focusing on those individu...