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These notes were taken by an Okanogan County Watch volunteer. Every attempt is made to be accurate. Notes are verbatim when possible, and otherwise summarized or paraphrased.
Note takers comments or clarifications are in italics. These notes are not the official county record of the meeting. For officially approved minutes, which are normally published at a later time, CLICK HERE.
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The time stamps refer to the times on the AV Capture archive of the meeting on this date at the County livestream archive. To locate items in real time, the clock on the wall in the AV Capture screen can be helpful.
12.10.2024 BOH
Meeting Highlights:
Administrator Lauri Jones describes syringe exchange with Room One in Twisp
Allocation to Village Reach, organization supporting local health jurisdictions,increased
Syphilis rates are up
Commissioners Hover, Neal, in favor of developing cistern regulation to facilitate development where legal water unavailable; environmental health director to see how other jurisdictions regulate this
Health officer reports on -challenges with hospital transfers -satisfaction with growing use of Naloxone for overdoses -lower-than-last-year rates of respiratory virus, flu and Covid - difficulty diagnosing pertussis
Community Health Director sees drop at local and state level in vaccination for pertussis, polio and measles
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