Another 900+ COVID-19 cases reported today in South Dakota; Avera St. Mary’s Hospital caring for 10 people with COVID

Today’s (Oct. 29, 2020) update from the South Dakota Department of Health showed 918 new confirmed cases and 82 new probable cases of COVID-19 in the state since yesterday.

In South Dakota:

• 12,462 currently active cases
• 413 currently hospitalized
• 41,507 total confirmed cases
• 1493 total probable cases
• 30,135 recovered cases
• 403 total deaths

Coronavirus patients currently occupy 15.1% of the staffed hospital beds in the state. Other patients are using 54.8% of the staffed beds leaving 30.1% available. Of the staffed intensive care unit beds in the state, COVID-19 patients are using 24.1%, other patients occupy 40% and 35.9% are available to be used.

Number of COVID-19 patients in central SD hospitals as of 6pm Oct. 28, 2020:

• Avera Gettysburg— 6
• Avera Gregory– 3
• Avera Hand County Memorial– 1
• Avera St. Mary’s Pierre– 10; 4 in ICU; 1 using ventilation
• Bowdle Healthcare Center– 0
• Cheyenne River Health Center– 8
• Eureka Community Health Services– 1
• Mobridge Regional Hospital– 4
• Platte Health Center– 1
• Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center– 4
• Winner Regional Healthcare Center– 1

Central SD positive COVID-19 cases:

• Brule–292 (196 recovered; 2 deaths)

• Buffalo– 254 (216 recovered; 4 deaths)

• Campbell–75 (48 recovered; 1 death)

• Corson–206 (130 recovered; 1 death)

• Dewey–330 (214 recovered)

• Edmunds–144 (112 recovered; 1 death)

• Faulk–218 (138 recovered; 1 death)

• Gregory–233 (158 recovered; 10 deaths)

• Haakon–98 (51 recovered; 1 death)

• Hand–131 (77 recovered; 1 death)

• Hughes–854 (682 recovered; 7 deaths)

• Hyde–44 (32 recovered)

• Jones–32 (27 recovered)

• Lyman–277 (205 recovered; 5 deaths)

• McPherson–72 (53 recovered)

• Mellette–83 (59 recovered; 1 death)

• Potter–107 (75 recovered)

• Stanley–92 (69 recovered)

• Sully–41 (34 recovered)

• Todd– 469 (322 recovered; 6 deaths)

• Tripp–271 (222 recovered; 2 deaths)

• Walworth–271 (194 recovered; 5 deaths)

• Ziebach–93 (69 recovered; 2 deaths)

A confirmed case of COVID-19 is defined as persons with a positive RT-PCR test. A probable case is defined as persons with a positive antigen test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

The South Dakota Department of Health provides COVID-19 case data broken down by age, sex, race/ethnicity and county of residence at covid.sd.gov.