COVID-19 hotspot, North Dakota is now administering vaccines at a rapid pace, well ahead of its neighbour to the north, Manitoba.Last fall, when cases peaked in North Dakota, the state announced it was allowing health-care workers who were COVID-19-positive, but asymptomatic, to continue working in coronavirus units.
It was a move meant to help maintain staffing levels amid heavy patient counts. Herd immunity? Why North Dakota’s coronavirus cases dropped so much Dr.
Joshua Wynne, North Dakota chief health strategist and vice-president of health affairs at the University of North Dakota, said the hospitals in the state are stable these days.“There was a pretty steep decline in the number of cases,” Wynne said.