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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.

Curt Arens CRUCIAL CREW: A few members of the Bristow, Neb., area crew pose in front of the trucks they bought to help on prescribed burns. Over the past eight years, this group has burned more than 30,000 acres in their fight to reclaim grasslands from invasive eastern red cedar. Working together has been a successful formula for Nebraska and South Dakota advocates of prescribed fire. Gathering landowners to work together on prescribed burn projects has been a winning model in the successful defeat of eastern red cedar encroachment on grazing lands. Normally, presc...

Report: SD nursing homes hardest hit by COVID-19 One in 10 nursing home residents in South Dakota have died from COVID-19, and more than 40% of nursing homes in the state have lost a 10th or more of their patients to the coronavirus, according to a report from the Center for Public Integrity, based on analysis of data from the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services. 12:15 pm, Dec. 22, 2020 × As pictured in a 2018 file photo, the Burke Community Memorial Hospital. (Matt Gade / Republic) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota nursing homes were the hardest hit in ...

listen live watch live The first of the home's 55 residents died Oct. 16, and 20 residents died over the following weeks. Those days were the worst of her career, Tieszen Memorial home administrator Laura Wilson told CPI. “You almost feel like a battle zone,” Wilson said. “We said, ‘You know, right now, we just need to survive.’” South Dakota's embattled nursing homes were fighting to ward off COVID-19 from their vulnerable residents while the state was deep into a surging coronavirus. The state garnered national headlines for being a COVID-19 hotpot, regularly at or near the top ...

Report: SD nursing homes hardest hit by COVID-19 One in 10 nursing home residents in South Dakota have died from COVID-19, and more than 40% of nursing homes in the state have lost a 10th or more of their patients to the coronavirus, according to a report from the Center for Public Integrity, based on analysis of data from the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services. 12:15 pm, Dec. 22, 2020 × As pictured in a 2018 file photo, the Burke Community Memorial Hospital. (Matt Gade / Republic) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota nursing homes were the hardest hit in ...