The Biden Administration has announced plans to inoculate 300 million Americans against the novel coronavirus by the end of the summer

Rapid City, SD – According to the statement, this goal will allow life in the United States to return to some degree of normalcy after COVID-19 wreaked havoc for well over a year.

According to the latest statistics, the virus has claimed 472,985 American lives — more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I and World War II combined.

Though it has the highest per capita death rate in the Rapid City metro area, Pennington County ranks among the middle 50% of all U.S. counties or county equivalents with at least one COVID-19 fatality, by death rate per capita.

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