56 new cases of COVID 19 were reported on Pine Ridge reservation on 12/28/2021 according to Delores “George” Pourier, director of OST Health Administration. “Most of these cases are in children, she observed. It is unclear if this is the rapidly transmissible Omicron variant. As of December 25 over 50% of COVID 19 infections nationally were caused by Omicron, according to the CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. OST COVID 19 Task Force member Rae Ann Red Owl issued her weekly color coded risk appraisal on 12/28/2021 as well. Because of the upsurge in numbers of people with COVID...

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