COVID-19 vaccine distribution will be challenging in South Dakota

  • Medical experts estimate that between 60% and 90% of a population needs to be vaccinated to effectively protect people from the virus.
    Medical experts estimate that between 60% and 90% of a population needs to be vaccinated to effectively protect people from the virus.
Ensuring widespread distribution, usage and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine in South Dakota will be challenging, health experts say, due to the rural nature of the state, the difficulty in storing and distributing doses of the vaccine and concerns that some people will be reluctant to be vaccinated. South Dakota will soon have thousands of the first round of new COVID-19 vaccines to…

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