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Health Department responds to critical question Each week the Lake Cumberland District Health Department responds to questions from media and community about COVID-19. Following is a portion of one of those sessions: Criticism from a questioner: It seems all you guys at the health department did was "count beans". How was this helpful? LCDHD response: a. That bean counting is referred to as epidemiology. It shows us where cases are spiking or declining and directs the overall public health response. b. Outside of our case reporting, we had other duties assigned to the health departments from DPH. Early in the pandemic, all public front facing businesses were closed. Our job as the health department was to ensure that those that did stay open did so safely. We were also responsible for responding to issues of non-compliance with the Governor's order to close down businesses specifically told to shut down for a period of time. That involved a lot of education for our community partners that was behind the scenes that the public wasn't really aware of...communication directly to emergency responders, media, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and businesses. We helped them figure out ways to reduce virus transmission rates, reduce contact, improve cleaning, etc. We also have responsibility to the Emergency Response. Early in the pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was at a critical shortage, so part of our response was to distribute PPE from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). When PPE was at critical shortage, we asked for donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) from the community at large. We collected and distributed donated PPE to community partners. During the pandemic, we were responsible for evaluating local hospital ventilator and isolation room capacity and reporting. Later, our response became centered around contact investigations and issuing isolation orders for positive Covid-19 cases. We also issued quarantine orders for high-risk close contacts of confirmed Covid-19 cases. Lately, we have administered 90% of all vaccine that has been given to us within 7 days of receipt. Additionally, we received our first shipment of vaccine on 12/21/20 and gave all 1,000 doses by close of business on 12/23/20. We are in the process of planning for mobile vaccination clinics to reach community members that may have difficulty reaching the health department for vaccine. This story was posted on 2021-04-29 23:52:14
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