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.THURSDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s. West winds around 5 mph shifting to the south in the afternoon.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Clear. Lows in the upper 20s. South winds 10 to

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.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Chance of rain possibly mixed with snow

in the morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in

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NDDoH

Wed. Mar. 17,  2021

11-a.m.

Barnes:

New Positives 3

Total Positives 1313

Active 10

Recovered 1270

 

Stutsman:

New Positives 1

Total Positives 3326

Active 15

Recovered 3218

COVID-19 Test Results
The results listed are from the previous day. Additional data can be found on the NDDoH website.

Please note that from now on the daily news release will be sent Monday – Friday. The NDDoH dashboard will continue to be updated daily.

 

BY THE NUMBERS
183,832 Residents who received at least one dose of vaccine
307,285 Total COVID-19 vaccine doses administered
5,372 Total Tests from yesterday*
1,735,319 Total tests completed since the pandemic began
134 Positive Individuals from yesterday*****
67 PCR Tests
67 Antigen Tests
101,284 Total positive individuals since the pandemic began
3.56% Daily Positivity Rate**
711 Total Active Cases
+55 Change in active cases from yesterday
80 Individuals with a recovery date of yesterday****
99,114 Total recovered since the pandemic began
16 Currently hospitalized
+1 Change in hospitalizations from yesterday
+1 New death(s) 
1,459 Total deaths since the pandemic began

 
INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED WITH COVID-19
Woman in her 70s from Emmons County 
 

NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED WEDNESDAY BY COUNTY
Adams 0 Grant 0 Ransom 3
Barnes 3 Griggs 1 Renville 0
Benson 0 Hettinger 1 Richland 6
Billings 0 Kidder 0 Rolette 1
Bottineau 0 LaMoure 1 Sargent 0
Bowman 1 Logan 0 Sheridan 0
Burke 0 McHenry 0 Sioux 0
Burleigh 11 McIntosh 0 Slope 0
Cass 57 McKenzie 2 Stark 11
Cavalier 0 McLean 1 Steele 0
Dickey 0 Mercer 2 Stutsman 1
Divide 0 Morton 3 Towner 0
Dunn 0 Mountrail 0 Traill 1
Eddy 0 Nelson 0 Walsh 1
Emmons 0 Oliver 0 Ward 2
Foster 0 Pembina 0 Wells 0
Golden Valley 0 Pierce 0 Williams 9
Grand Forks 11 Ramsey 5

 

* Note that this includes PCR and antigen; it does not include individuals from out of state. 

**Individuals (PCR or antigen) who tested positive divided by the total number of people tested who have not previously tested positive (susceptible encounters). 

*** Number of individuals who tested positive with a PCR or antigen test and died from any cause while infected with COVID-19. Please remember that deaths are reported as they’re reported to us by the facility or through the official death record (up to 10-day delay). 

**** The actual date individuals are officially out of isolation and no longer contagious.

*****Daily positive numbers include people who tested with a PCR or antigen test. Totals may be adjusted as individuals are found to live out of state, in another county, or as other information is found during investigation.

For descriptions of these categories, visit the NDDoH dashboard.

For the most updated and timely information and updates related to COVID-19, visit the NDDoH website at www.health.nd.gov/coronavirus, follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and visit the CDC website at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus.

Jamestown  (CVHD)  Central Valley Health District  will be offering a first dose COVID vaccination clinic for Pfizer Vaccine.

  • Thursday, March 18
  • 3-p.m. to 5-p.m.
  • Jamestown Civic Center

in the Exchequer Room. Appointments are required. To register for an appointment, visit the
CVHD website at www.centralvalleyhealth.org and click the “COVID-19” tab. Participants who
cannot register themselves are encouraged to call CVHD at 252-8130 for assistance.

Available Moderna 2nd Dose Clinic

Date:  Thursday, March 18

Time:  10-a.m – 2-p.m.

*Review the due date on the back of your CDC COVID vaccination record card prior to registering, to see if this 2nd dose clinic applies to you.

* 2nd dose clinics ONLY.  If you register as a first dose, your appointment will be canceled.

What: 2nd Dose COVID Vaccination Clinic

Vaccine Type: Moderna

Location:  Jamestown Civic Center Exchequer Room (North Entrance)

 

 

 

Bismarck  (NDDoH)  the North Dakota State Health Department announces that as of Tuesday,  March 16, 2021 that, 180,827 North Dakotans have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose—that’s one out of every four people in the state. When all of those people finish their vaccine course, the state will be over 35% of the way to vaccine-driven herd immunity!

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Legislature has passed a bipartisan bill aimed at shielding businesses and health care facilities from lawsuits over customers’ or employees’ COVID-19 exposure. The Senate approved the bill 41-6 on Wednesday. The House passed the bill 77-17 last month. Republican Sen. Jerry Klein says about 30 states have passed similar legislation. The move by the states came after a federal proposal led by Senate Republicans failed to win approval last year. Officials representing business and hospital groups spoke in favor of the legislation, while some attorneys and a union leader opposed it.

 

Jamestown  (JAGST)   Jamestown Area Grief Support Team is offering a grief support group for anyone who is grieving the loss of someone important to them, whether the loss is recent or from years past.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Diane Witzig said, the group will meet once a week at 1:00 p.m. at the United Presbyterian  Church, 302 2nd Ave SE in Jamestown beginning on Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 and will run for 6 weeks.

She pointed out, In his book, Understanding Your Grief, internationally recognized expert in the field of loss and grief, Dr. Alan Wolfelt states, “You can benefit from a connectedness that comes from people who have also had a death in their lives.  Support groups, where people come together and share the common bond of experience, can be invaluable in helping you and your grief and supporting your need to mourn long after the event of the death”

In our fast paced society, people who have had a significant loss are often expected to be ‘over it’ in a matter of a few weeks.  They may even expect this of themselves.  In reality, it may take years for someone to work through his or her grief.  The support group experience allows individuals to express grief in their own unique way and on their own unique timetable.

Diane added that the JAGST Support Group is free of charge, however, participants are asked to register to ensure that enough materials are available.  Participants should plan to attend all six sessions. CDC guidelines will be followed. For more information, or to register, please call Diane at 701-320-4915 or Eileen 701-269-4521.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Republican-led Legislature is considering giving $10 million to a Minot intermodal rail facility. It’s a move backers say will reduce shipping costs and increase markets for the state’s farm products and other commodities. Opponents argue the funding proposed for the long-troubled and financially distressed facility is nothing more than a taxpayer bailout for banks, one of which is partly owned by Republican U.S. Sen. John Hoeven. The legislation seeks to provide $1.8 million for track improvements and $8.2 million that would be funneled to a trio of banks that acquired the facility through foreclosure.

WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The last remaining building at what was once considered one of the major stockyards in the Midwest has been burned and bulldozed. A contractor on Wednesday conducted a controlled burn of the livestock building at the site of the operation that began as West Fargo Union Stockyards. The West Fargo Fire Department stood by as a precaution. City historians say the stockyards opened in 1935 and by the 1970s was the 10th largest livestock market in the United States. The adjoining meatpacking plant closed its doors in 1999. The stockyards remained open until last year and the property was sold to a developer.

In world and national news…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Hundreds of schools, COVID-19 vaccination clinics, businesses and more are shutting down across the Deep South as forecasters warn of waves of severe weather including massive tornadoes, downpours and hail the size of tennis balls. The weather service says roughly 16 million people in the Southeast could see powerful storms Wednesday afternoon through early Thursday. And a region of nearly 3 million stretching from southeastern Arkansas and northeastern Louisiana across Mississippi into Alabama was at particular risk for big twisters that stay on the ground for miles. A possible tornado knocked down trees and power lines and damaged a home in rural west Alabama.

 

ATLANTA (AP) — The Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of organizations, reaffirmed its solidarity with Asian American and Asian immigrant communities following the shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors that killed eight. Leaders in the coalition also issued a warning about demagogues who they say continue to use the coronavirus pandemic and economic uncertainty as leverage for drumming up fears about the Asian American and Asian immigrant communities. A white man is accused in the killings and most of the victims are women of Asian descent. Following the release Wednesday of its report showing a surge in the distribution of white supremacist propaganda in 2020, the Anti-Defamation League told The Associated Press a significant number of the propaganda included anti-immigrant rhetoric.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve foresees the economy accelerating quickly this year but still expects to keep its benchmark interest rate pinned near zero through 2023, despite rising concerns in financial markets about potential higher inflation. The Fed also said Wednesday that it foresees the economy growing at a 6.5% pace this year, up from a previous projection in December of 4.2%. It also expects inflation to reach 2.4% in 2021, above its target of 2%, but expects inflation to fall back to around 2% in 2022. The central bank also said it would continue to buy $120 billion in bonds each month to keep longer-term borrowing costs down.

 

(AP)  Stock indexes picked up Wednesday after the Federal Reserve issued a statement saying it expects to keep its key interest rate near zero through 2023. The central bank’s renewed commitment to keeping rates at rock bottom lows comes even as it forecasts the economy will accelerate this year. Wall Street has been anxious about the potential for higher inflation and has been looking for signs that the central bank shares investors’ concerns. The S&P 500 index was up 0.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.6% and the technology-heavy Nasdaq was gained 0.2%. The 10-year Treasury yield hit 1.65% versus 1.62% the day before. It’s now the highest since January 2020.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department says it has sent out 90 million economic impact payments totaling $242 billion since President Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan last week. The bulk of those payments were made by the IRS as direct deposits. Officials said Wednesday that recipients started to see the payments showing up in their bank accounts last weekend. In addition, Treasury has mailed out roughly 150,000 checks worth about $442 million. Processing of the payments began last Friday, the day after Biden signed the American Rescue Plan.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a nod to Women’s History Month, the Democratic-led House is on course to pass two measures Wednesday, one designed to protect women from domestic violence, the other to remove the deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The latter measure has passed by a vote of 222-204. Both measures face a more difficult path in an evenly divided Senate. The White House has announced its support for the bill that would reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. It aims to reduce domestic and sexual violence and improve the response to it through a variety of grant programs.

 

(AP)  Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has used his first floor speech on Capitol Hill to blast a wave of Republican-backed measures that would make it harder to cast ballots in many states. Warnock is Georgia’s first Black senator, and his election helped secure Democrats’ Senate majority. In his speech Wednesday, he noted the country’s history of allowing voter suppression against minorities and the poor, and he warned that some Republican lawmakers are trying to reopen those chapters with “draconian” restrictions he cast as a reaction against Democratic victories like his. Warnock says, “We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights and voter access unlike anything we have seen since the Jim Crow era.”