
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) Health/Medical Related Information
The Helpline Center has gathered the information below to assist in the COVID-19 pandemic response.
- Data Dashboard
- Your Health
- Symptom Checker (for Apple devices)
- Community, Work and School
- Return to Work/School Letter (use this form to request documentation of release from quarantine or isolation. This is for individuals only; employers/schools may not request a letter on behalf of someone else)
- Vaccination
- Identification Tool (answer screening questions to determine when you can get vaccinated (aka your priority group) and how to contact your vaccine provider)
- Chart of Availability Timeline
- Priority 1 Phase Groups (visual)
- Map (of vaccine providers by county)
- Healthcare Providers
- Updates/Infographics
- Vaccine distribution plan info from Health Systems and Retail Pharmacies
- SD DOH vaccination updates
- Mass Testing events/sites across our state, visit
- covid.sd.gov/drivethrutesting
- No cost, but results may take 3-5 days
- Rapid Testing sites, visit
- COVID-19 Statewide Rapid Antigen Testing Sites
- May have cost associated, but results within several hours
- For testing without a doctor’s click here
- For testing through your health care provider, see information below regarding Health Systems in South Dakota
- Data – COVID Data Tracker (maps and charts tracking cases, deaths, and trends of COVID-19 in the U.S.).
- Frequently Asked Questions (including contract tracing, funerals, testing questions, cleaning, pets and animals, etc).
- Business Guidance (Plan, prepare, respond – including cleaning, ongoing mitigation, prevention and support and communication/posters, social distancing)
- Travel Questions
- Avera
- 1-877-AT-AVERA (1-877-282-8372)
- Or initiate a “web-encounter”/online screening tool by visiting: www.avera.org/covidhotline. Once that is complete, an Avera Covid-19 Hotline representative will call you to determine next steps.
- Huron Community Call Center
- (605) 353-6214, 8:00am – 5:00pm, Monday – Friday
- Monument Health (anyone in West River area)
- 1-800-279-1466
- For those experiencing mild symptoms and would like to schedule a test please click here.
- Sanford
- (605) 333-4444
- Watertown Area
- If your health provider is not listed here, reach out to your local clinic.
- For testing without a doctor’s click here