South Dakota National Guard to Support Monument Health in COVID Testing Efforts
PIERRE, S.D. – This week, nine soldiers with the South Dakota National Guard were activated to support Monument Health in their COVID-19 testing efforts. The soldiers were activated to Belle Fourche, Custer, Rapid City, Spearfish, and Sturgis.
“Since the start of the pandemic, the State of South Dakota has worked with our hospital systems to manage hospital capacity so that we can help those who need elevated levels of care. Testing efforts help us to identify and isolate cases to slow the spread of the virus,” said Governor Noem. “This past week, I had conversations with all three South Dakota hospital systems and asked them what they needed as cases start to rise again. Monument asked for the National Guard to assist them in their testing efforts, and we are happy to help.”
The soldiers are activated under FEMA Title 32, meaning that their efforts will be federally funded.
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Dear Parent or Guardian,
We have been informed that four employees and three students in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades at Rapid Valley have been diagnosed with COVID-19. We are alerting parents to be watchful for children with symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 illness during the next 14 days. If your child is identified as being a close contact to the COVID-19 case, a SD-DOH official will contact you.
The Republican Governor of Mississippi believes “When you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of things”. So why do the anti-mask, anti-vaccine, Covid conspiracy believers panic and call 911 then go into intensive care and beg to be vaccinated?
Unvaccinated by choice, and then they run to the ER and over burden the health care system, and as a result, financially burden everyone. “My body, My choice” but will take horse dewormer instead of vaccination because someone on the Fox channel told them to. Those people should not be given any priority at the hospital.
Unvaccinated by choice, Medicare, Medicaid should not pay the their hospital Bill for emergency COVID-19 treatment.
They also complain about taxes and insurance rates being high yet these knuckleheads contribute to the problem.
This is what happens when the crazies take over school boards, 166 new infections from the schools. But at least their children weren’t mildly inconvenienced by a mask, that would be much worse than overburdening an already stressed healthcare system.
WHAT?! I thought Noem had everything under control…..but now we need to call up the guard…anyone paying her to do it?
Covid cases have jumped about ten-fold in the Black Hills since the start of the Sturgis Rally a month ago. Exactly as you’d expect.
During the rally (August 12th) the Grand Forks Herald had this headline: “Gov. Kristi Noem is the new star at the 2021 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally”. Yes, she sure was. Don’t let her forget it, either.
She rode her horse into Sturgis to showcase her lax Covid policies and slam Dr. Fauci who warned that the rally could be a Delta variant super-spreader event. The nerve of that guy.
541 active cases in just Meade County (Sturgis) today. Before the rally… about 20.