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Rough flu season, new strategy
By Matt Baide
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the rough flu season and a new strae
tegic health plan for the county.
Public Health Officer Dr. Keri
}ardner said it has been a rough
s ,ason for the “tripledemic,” which
includes influenza, COVIDalS) and
RSV. Gardner said this year’s influ-
enza 'as mostly influenza A, and it
is an H1N1 virus, similar to what
taused the swine flu in the late 20008
and early 2010s. The flu vaccine does
help, and she recommends people get
their flu shot. '
Board of
tr "211111th is surprisingly not one of
ti Am. \‘Vo, the public health depart—
ment. come to the board of h :lalth to
seek your 2' istai’ice in helping: us get
Panelist? hU u Gal/incite. \; L.(lll sic
treate in most patients with simpr
a pill that is taken for eight wee s
and when we treat hepatitis C, We
avoid liver damage, liver cance and
then death from liver disease."
Gardl also reported the . ate
has lowered the age for getting vac-
cinated agains , human pamploma vi-
rus to age instead of'the current age
12. She also talked about substance
abi‘ .e, stating a new drug on the
streets is called Xylazine, which is a
veterinary sedative muscle relaxant.
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rcsponsi 'c customer serv'w, coon
(liuated con‘xmunity planning, tec'
nology to improve outcomes. employ
continuous quality lll'lpl'OVOITIGI
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and procedures and maintain compe—
tent workforce.
Windom said he prefers to do a
work plan ev year and review it
in December. said the work plans
will be presented at the. next board of
health meeting.
The goals of the plan include t ‘an-
sitioning from COVID, including
directing COVID team efforts and
seeking new sources of revenue. An-
other goal is to build and strength-
en public health and engagement
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confrontation continued. The Women
began bi .aking bottles and one ofthe
women struck the man with a broken
bottle.
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