Note: The data presented is from the previous day — Tuesday updates include data from over the weekend (Saturday 1 pm CT - Monday 1 pm CT)
- State’s death toll: 2,305 (+2 from the previous report)
- Note: 'Death toll' indicates the number of deaths among people with COVID, but COVID may not have been the sole cause of death.
- Deaths verifiably caused by COVID: 2,027 (updated weekly)
- Active cases: 6,820 (+45)
- People 12 and older who are fully vaccinated: 58.97% (+0.04%)
- Vaccine boosters given: 100,260
- Currently hospitalized: 234 (-12)
- Note: Currently Hospitalized numbers include COVID-19 cases and people that are in the hospital under transmission-based precautions. The number may include out-of-state cases and people.
When the delta variant took off around the U.S., the federal government updated its masking guidelines for fully vaccinated people.
The current advice from the CDC is to mask up indoors if you live in a place with "substantial" or "high" coronavirus transmission. In South Dakota, that's all but Harding and Sanborn counties.
The change to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's masking guidelines came after research on a summer outbreakshowed delta was more transmissible than previously understood.
The vaccination of children ages 5 to 11 against COVID-19 is well under way: The White House announced this weekthat an estimated 10 percent of children in that age group have received their first shot.
All vaccinated adults could soon be eligible for a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot
The Food and Drug Administration has given its OK for fully vaccinated Americans who are age 18 and older to receive a COVID-19 booster shot.
The FDA on Friday granted emergency use authorization for a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, which had already been available to people 65 and older and to anyone 18 years and older who is at elevated risk of contracting COVID-19.
People who got the Pfizer or Moderna immunizations to start would be eligible for a booster six months after their second shot, the FDA said. People who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine would be eligible for a booster two months after their first shot.
