Rushmore State News

A COVID-19 vaccine was administered to 95.6 percent of South Dakota's nursing and care homes as of June 26, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

This is a 0.3 percent increase since the previous data update on May 29. The number of staff employed in nursing and care homes can fluctuate significantly, sometimes leading to a decrease in the total percentage of vaccinated staff.

South Dakota is the second most vaccinated state in the US among nursing and care homes.

COVID-19 claimed less than 10 lives in South Dakota in the week ending June 26. This is unchanged from the week before.

There have been up to 3,339 fatalities tied to COVID-19 in South Dakota.

Vaccination rates are consistently high across US nursing and care homes, much higher than vaccination rates in the general public.

A Brookings Institution report found even in states with most vaccine-adverse communities, such as Wyoming and West Virginia, more than 80 percent of the elderly above the age of 65 are vaccinated.

State	% Vaccinated	% Change
Alaska	94	0.1
Alabama	85.9	0.1
Arkansas	88.8	0.1
Arizona	78.1	-2.1
California	89.7	0
Colorado	91.4	-0.5
District of Columbia	85.6	2.4
Delaware	93.7	-0.2
Florida	81.9	-0.5
Georgia	87.2	0.3
Hawaii	94.3	0.5
Iowa	93.8	0.2
Idaho	84.6	-2.2
Illinois	89.4	0.2
Indiana	86	-0.1
Kansas	87	-0.7
Kentucky	86	-1.1
Louisiana	86.7	0
Massachusetts	94.8	-0.4
Maryland	90.4	-0.7
Maine	94.1	0.3
Michigan	86.2	-0.4
Minnesota	93.1	-0.3
Missouri	85.2	0.2
Mississippi	86.6	0.2
Montana	89.9	0.2
North Carolina	87.1	0
North Dakota	92.3	-0.5
Nebraska	92.4	-0.4
New Hampshire	95.4	0.6
New Jersey	89	-1.4
New Mexico	85	-0.4
Nevada	77.4	-2.1
New York	90.5	-0.2
Ohio	83.3	-0.5
Oklahoma	84.7	-0.8
Oregon	86.8	-0.3
Pennsylvania	90.1	-0.2
South Carolina	86.1	-0.3
South Dakota	95.6	0.3
Tennessee	82.8	-0.2
Texas	80.7	-1.3
Utah	85.7	-2.2
Virginia	89.3	-0.2
Vermont	96.3	-0.2
Washington	88.8	-0.7
Wisconsin	90	-0.5
West Virginia	87.7	-0.5
Wyoming	90.4	0.5