Vaccine numbers stagnant in state

Beadle adds two variant positive

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HURON — Fewer than 3,000 first-timers received a COVID-19 vaccine over the past week, according to numbers from the South Dakota Department of Health (DOH) released Wednesday.

That is the lowest number of new vaccine recipients in a week since the vaccine was made available to all eligible adults within the state.

The state did cross the threshold of 700,000 doses of vaccine administered in the state, now at 704,129 in Wednesday’s DOH report, administered to 374,889 persons, which is an increase of 2,996 from last week’s release.

By percentage, the state has administered at least one dose of vaccine to 57.85% of the eligible population, with 53.58% of those now fully vaccinated. The state reports 352,802 persons fully vaccinated, which is 39.35% of the state’s entire population.

In Beadle County, just 46 new county residents received a vaccine in the past week, bringing that number up to 7,748. The county has administered 14,533 doses of the vaccine.

Beadle reports 7,393 fully vaccinated in Wednesday’s DOH report, equating to 49.29% of the eligible population in the county and 40.06% of the entire county’s population.

DOH added a tracking number to each county’s numbers on the “tables” tab of the covid.sd.gov dashboard that reveals the variants that each county has encountered.

That number revealed that Beadle County has encountered two variant positives in the county, including the one active case in the county presently.

Overall, the state added 200 new positive COVID-19 cases, one death, and 115 new recovered cases. The state’s active virus cases rose by more than 80 cases to 290.

Hospitalizations in the state, which had been steadily declining in both overall hospitalizations and active hospitalizations, were both up in Wednesday’s DOH report.

Beadle County noted one new positive case and no new recovered cases, which move the active cases in the county to the aforementioned one.

The Heartland Region noted three new positive cases and no new recovered cases among the seven counties in the region. The Heartland currently reports three active virus cases, though it should be noted that all three active cases in the region are considered to be variant cases, which are more easily transmissible than the original COVID-19 virus.