CRST offering $500 incentive in effort to boost COVID-19 vaccinations

With the number of local COVID-19 cases rising steadily and only 30 percent of the residents in Dewey and Ziebach counties vaccinated against the illness, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) has launched an incentive payment program as encouragement for tribal members to get vaccinated. The number of active coronavirus cases in the two-county area climbed to 62 on Tuesday, Aug. 24 -...