(CNN) -- Scientists still don't know a lot about a rare and serious COVID-19 complication that impacts children, but what they do know is that when there is a surge of COVID-19 cases in their area, MIS-C cases will typically follow.
The county Department of Public Health on Sunday reported 1,056 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total infections to 1,470,829, and five more deaths, for a total of 26,312.
Recent studies suggest vaccination helps reduce the likelihood of developing longer-term symptoms after a COVID-19 infection, and may help some people with symptoms feel better.
"If you look at the history of the surges and the diminutions in cases over a period of time, they can bounce back," the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director said.
Finding no open beds at any of the region’s major hospitals, a medical center in southwestern North Dakota transferred a patient recovering from a heart attack by plane to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a cardiac procedure that normally could have been performed in Bismarck.