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Avera Tyler hospital staff members hold a community testing event on July 15 in reaction to Lincoln County spike in COVID-19 cases after the July Fourth weekend.
MARSHALL Â A lot can happen in the space of a year and at times, it seemed like 2020 was really putting that idea to the test.
The Independent’s top stories of the year include national and international events that touched, and in some cases drastically changed, life in southwest Minnesota. At the same time, area communities continued to move forward with school and municipal building projects that had been a long time in the planning.
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Residents and staff at Avera Morningside Heights received the first COVID-19 vaccines in Marshall on Monday. Area hospital and clinic staff will be getting vaccinated starting later this week. Above, Morningside Heights resident Ruth Rust receives the COVID-19 vaccine Monday.
MARSHALL It’s been a long wait, but this week area health care workers are taking historic steps to fight COVID-19.
Avera Marshall started administering its first doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, with residents and staff of long-term care facilities first in line to be immunized. Starting later this week, hospital and clinic staff in locations including Marshall, Granite Falls and Tyler will also be getting doses of the vaccine.