Covid strikes hard at Crow Creek
RAPID CITY – South Dakota has recently reported 15,400 total positive cases of COVID-19 statewide with around 2,500 of them being currently active.
Pennington County makes up 1,600 of those cases and is only second to Minnehaha County that has over 5,600 cases. Oglala Lakota County nears 200 positive cases.
The South Dakota Department of Health reports that there are 452 positive cases in k-12 schools statewide with 207 students and 155 staff. There are 842 positive cases reported among colleges and universities.
There are around 70 people statewide that are currently hospitalized because of COVID-19. The state’s death toll remains at 173.
Native Americans are the second most impacted demographic in South Dakota while comprising of 13% of total positive cases. Whites make up 56% of the total cases.
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September 11, 2020