PIERRE — Last week, the mayors of Pierre and Fort Pierre met with medical officials with Avera St. Mary’s hospital to get an update on Hughes and Stanley Counties status with a gradually increasing number of Covid-19 cases. Fort Pierre Mayor Gloria Hanson says she’s been watching infection numbers on her own…
Dr. Mikel Holland, Chief Medical Officer at St. Mary’s told the mayors the increase in Delta variant cases are small right now, but the increase is leading to increasing vaccinations…
Hanson says Holland indicated the state’s vaccination rate is still short of the target 70-percent needed for herd immunity…
Hanson says she foresees a return to some precautions similar to ones taken when the pandemic began last March.
