YANKTON, S.D. (KELO.com) — Health care professionals have been telling us to wear face masks, wash hands and keep our distance to avoid spreading the coronavirus.
Yankton Doctor Mike Pietila has also had to treat patients that developed the infection.
Pietila, who heads up the Intensive Care Unit at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, says they have had success in treating those patients so far.
Pietila says they have seen the results of prevention and protection measures.
He says a major outbreak can be avoided but people will have to continue to take precautions for some time.
(Jerry Oster, WNAX, contributed this report.)
