South Dakota experiences its worst week yet; total deaths already nearly surpassed Sept totals (Preview)

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by Carrie Moritz, Gazette

At a time when many are experiencing “COVID fatigue,” public health officials in South Dakota are appalled at the recent increase in cases in the past two weeks.

“It [active cases] has been significantly increasing over the past couple of weeks,” said Sioux Falls Public Health official Jill Franken at a press conference last Monday, October 5. She also noted that hospitalizations have had a significant increase as well, which is very concerning.

“Bottom line, we’ve gotta reverse these trends,” she said.

The numbers for Minnehaha County as a whole surpassed 1000 active cases on Friday, October 9, and as of Tuesday were at 1,354. Prior to that, active cases had only surpassed 1,000 back in early May, when most of the activity was from the Smithfield Foods outbreak.

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