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SD Health Department Trying to Get Ahead of the Next COVID-19 Surge

SD Health Department Trying to Get Ahead of the Next COVID-19 Surge

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With positive COVID-19 cases soaring and hospital beds filling up, the South Dakota Department of Health is trying to plan ahead.

Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon says past forecasts haven’t been accurate…

Malsam-Rysdon says hospital use doesn’t directly follow higher positive case numbers…

Malsam-Rysdon says its critical that people get flu shots to help take pressure off health care providers….

The state reported eight hundred seventy-six positive cases on Wednesday, a one day record. There are now over three hundred people hospitalized for Covid treatment.

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