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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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