Health

“It is critical for infants, young children, pregnant women and people with chronic illnesses to continue maintaining routine immunizations..."

This includes the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribes in South Dakota.

South Dakota Secretary of Health Kim Malsam-Rysdon did say they will take a look at the WHO study.

Dr. Kari Scovel says it's normal for kids to feel stressed out due to the pandemic.

"This airborne isolation shield offers us a much-needed level of personal protection while performing procedures such as intubation. It helps contain the virus and keep it from becoming airborne and infecting our care team.”

There are also 608 lab-confirmed cases and 193 probable cases reported so far among Wyoming residents.

All blood types are critically needed right now, with an especially high need for type O, A-negative and B-negative red blood cells.

The death involves a hospitalized adult man who had an existing health condition that put him at higher risk of serious illness related to the virus.

“The goal of the plasma treatment is to improve clinical outcomes of patients who are severely affected by COVID-19."

In an aim to curb the spread of Coronavirus, no visitors are allowed at Monument Health facilities.

The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is encouraging residents with COVID-19 symptoms to get tested to help prevent further spread and outbreaks

Because of the recent increase in COVID-19 cases in western South Dakota, Monument Health announced it is returning to its no-visitor policy at all hospitals, emergency departments and clinics.

South Dakota's flu season has all but disappeared as COVID-19 infections continue to rise.

How convalescent plasma could be helpful in the pandemic.

The Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Health Board has established a new Emergency Operations and Training Center.

“It’s been suggested many of us have already been exposed to COVID-19, but don’t know it because we didn’t have symptoms,”

Thanks to the current pandemic, communities have come together. But some people are looking to do more.

Visitors must enter via the main entrance of the hospital and they will be screened for COVID-19 symptoms when entering the facility.

Like most non-emergency health care across the United States, many dental offices have limited hours and are only seeing emergency cases. But, one doctor utilized a 3D printer to make heavy-duty masks.

An eye doctor in Rapid City is getting ready to see patients.

According to the CDC, people with COVID-19 have reported a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus.

Occupational and physical therapy can be important tools in helping kids develop and one local therapy service is helping kids virtually.

There is still concern about what businesses are doing to keep employees and customers safe.

The Rapid City Stanley Steemer team recently qualified for the Federal "Payroll Protection Program". Because of that, they are donating a top to bottom cleaning at Cornerstone Rescue Mission as a way to give back.

There's a test to see if you have already been infected with COVID-19 even if you don't have the symptoms.

South Dakota along with other states acquired the medication as Trump regularly promoted it from the podium in White House briefings.

The U.S. government has provided far fewer masks, gloves and other protective items than Wyoming has requested and in some cases has diverted requested supplies for use elsewhere in the U.S.

The Indian Health Service announced today that the final $367 million of the $1.032 billion provided to the agency in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has now been allocated across the Indian Health system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

The full report, released Thursday morning, also provided several additional guideline suggestions that the company can take going forward.

Until a COVID-19 vaccine is developed, plasma could improve recovery for hospital patients with severe COVID-19 infections.