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The Summit County Health Department is asking residents to enter their contact information into an online database that officials will use to contact people when it’s time for them to be vaccinated, part of the county’s unprecedented effort to administer tens of thousands of vaccine doses to protect the community from COVID-19.
“The list will be used to notify individuals when vaccine registration opens,” spokesperson Derek Siddoway wrote in an email to The Park Record. “… Our goal is to make the vaccine available and accessible to any resident who wishes to receive it in the coming months.”
The Park City School District this month loosened its quarantine protocols, its superintendent said, implementing a policy that is less strict than federal and state guidelines in a bid to keep more students in school.
The change affects “close contacts” of students who contract the coronavirus. If a student tests positive for COVID-19, the student who sits at the desk next to them during class wouldn’t necessarily have to quarantine if both students wore masks for the entire time, Superintendent Jill Gildea indicated.
Previously, the district required any close contact of a student who tested positive to quarantine for 14 days.
COVID-19 vaccine rolls into Ohio: The Wake Up for Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Gov. Mike DeWine and First Lady Fran DeWine greeted a UPS truck carrying Pfizer vaccines at Ohio State University s Wexler Medical Center in Columbus.
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Vaccine: The first doses of the coronavirus vaccine arrived Friday morning in Ohio. Gov. Mike DeWine greeted trucks from Pfizer at Ohio State University’s Wexler Medical Center, the recipient of 975 doses, Laura Hancock reports.
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During the recent surge of Covid-19 cases, there have been questions, or complaints, about how local medical and health officials are handling the virus.
Summit County Health Director Rich Bullough answered some of those in his recent visit to KPCW.
There have been some mixed reports about the ability of local citizens to get Covid testing from Intermountain Health Care. At Monday’s meeting of the County Health Board, some of the Board members said there have been instances where locals have had contact with infected individuals. But they were told by IHC that to be tested, they had to be sick, or show symptoms.