By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk Managing Editor | @magnoli
March 10, 2021
| 2:33 p.m.
Thousands of people have filed complaints alleging COVID-19-related health order violations to Santa Barbara County, which has emphasized education over enforcement in its response.
Each complaint has to be substantiated by a county employee for a response, Emergency Management Director Kelly Hubbard said, and most health order violations have not prompted enforcement.
Environmental Health Services, a division of Public Health that oversees restaurants, bars and other food service, has investigated 764 complaints related to COVID-19 health order violations.
The county sent notice-to-comply letters to 22 businesses, and has had two hearings so far, Hubbard said.
This spring, the Army s Public Health Command-Pacific s Entomology and Environmental Molecular Biology Laboratory service lines will launch the first ever Pre-Exercise Vector Surveillance program for the Indo-Pacific region.
The new initiative is a pilot program funded by the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance program, also known as GEIS, a section of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch.
The vision of GEIS is to mitigate the threat of emerging infectious diseases to the U.S. military through a global laboratory network. The network is designed to help influence force health protection decision-making and enhance global health security.
One of the primary ways GEIS accomplishes this task is by providing timely, actionable infectious disease surveillance information to Geographic Combatant Commands and partner agencies, according to Army Maj. Michael Kwon, director of PHC-P s Environmental Health Services Directorate.
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The new employees will help protect the environment (Image: Derbyshire Live)
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This spring, Public Health Command-Pacific’s Entomology and Environmental Molecular Biology Laboratory service lines will launch the first ever Pre-Exercise Vector Surveillance program for the Indo-Pacific region.
The new initiative is a pilot program funded by the Global Emerging Infectious Surveillance program, also known as GEIS, a section of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch.
The vision of GEIS is to mitigate the threat of emerging infectious diseases to the U.S. military through a global laboratory network. The network is designed to help influence force health protection decision-making and enhance global health security.
One of the primary ways GEIS accomplishes this task is by providing timely, actionable infectious disease surveillance information to Geographic Combatant Commands and partner agencies, according to Maj. Michael Kwon, director of PHC-P s Environmental Health Services Directorate.
Housing and Dining Services staff go the extra mile to support students placed in quarantine and isolation 19 Feb, 2021
Members of the transport crew in Housing and Dining Services drive students from their residence hall to the unit where they’ll be quarantining. From left are Eric Jackson, David Gonzalez, Scott “Raider” Campbell, Jose Rosales and Phil Smith.
When Colorado State University students living in campus housing are notified that they have tested positive for COVID-19, or may have been exposed to someone who tested positive, things move quickly. And it can be stressful, often requiring students to gather their belongings at a moment’s notice and move into a different room, where they will spend 10-14 days away from others to slow the spread of the virus.