Today’s (Sept. 9, 2021) update from the South Dakota Department of Health shows there are currently 6750 active cases of COVID-19 in the state.
There are:
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207 people hospitalized
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119,218 total confirmed cases
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16,939 total probable cases
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127,328 recovered cases
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2079 deaths among cases
The number of variant cases reported in South Dakota are:
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199 Delta (First identified: India)
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172 Alpha (First identified: United Kingdom)
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16 Epsilon (First identified: California)
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3 Gamma (First identified: Japan/Brazil)
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2 Beta (First identified: South Africa)
Number of COVID-19 patients in central SD hospitals as of 6pm Sept. 8, 2021:
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Avera Gettysburg— 0
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Avera Gregory– 0
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Avera Hand County Memorial– 0
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Avera St. Mary’s Pierre– 2; 1 in ICU; 0 using ventilation
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Bowdle Healthcare Center– 1
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Cheyenne River Health Center– 2
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Eureka Community Health Services– 0
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Mobridge Regional Hospital– 1
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Platte Health Center– 2
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Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center– 0
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Winner Regional Healthcare Center– 0
Coronavirus patients currently occupy 7.4% of the staffed hospital beds in the state. Other patients are using 55.8% of the staffed beds leaving 36.8% available. Of the staffed adult intensive care unit beds in the state, COVID-19 patients are using 23.8%, other patients occupy 42.5% and 33.8% are available to be used.
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.
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.
Community spread map Sept. 9, 2021, on covid.sd.gov website.
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