While Covid-19 infection numbers seeming to be ramping down, hospitals are still running near or at capacity.

Doug Ekeren, President of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, says they are hoping they can spread out patient numbers a bit….

Ekeren says while the omicron variant is overall less severe, the numbers infected has jumped considerably….

Yankton County was showing just over eight hundred active infections in the latest data from the state Health Department. That was down from a peak of nine hundred fifty last week.