Jefferson County Health Department officials hope to soon receive a shipment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, which the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved.
During a Facebook Live session today (Dec. 22), Jeana Vidacak, public health preparedness coordinator for the Health Department, said the Health Department is an approved vaccination site and has signed up for shipments of the vaccine.
She also said Missouri is still working to vaccinate health care workers and people in long-term care facilities.
Vidacak said the long-term care facilities are working directly with Walgreens or CVS pharmacies to vaccinate workers and residents.
She said the Health Department does not have the proper refrigerators to store the Pfizer vaccines, so the agency did not receive any of those.
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PLANNING â The Jefferson County Board of Health held a special meeting Monday morning in the Towers building to discuss plans for the health departmentâs first round of COVID-19 vaccine distribution. (Photo by Andrew Grimm)
STEUBENVILLE The Jefferson County Health Department could have its first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine this week, which prompted the need for a plan.
The county Board of Health held a special meeting Monday morning in the Towers Building to hash out the details with feedback from employees, local officials and members of the public in attendance.
The health department, according to officials, will be receiving an anticipated 400 doses of the Moderna vaccine.
In light of a recent downward trend of positive COVID-19 cases in Jefferson County, students in the School District of Fort Atkinson who elect to return to in-person instruction will be allowed to do so as of Jan. 5, with several operational considerations.
Students who choose to continue receiving their instruction via a remote, virtual learning platform still will be able to do so in the new concurrent, or âmirrored,â learning format.
Board of education members voted unanimously to take that action Thursday during their regular monthly meeting in the Luther Elementary board room.
The operational considerations beginning Jan. 5 are as follows:
“Burn in Hell.” “Get murdered.” “We’re coming for you.”
Those are just some of the messages that 69-year-old grandmother and retired teacher Joyce Warshaw received.
That’s all because, as mayor of Dodge City, Kan. a city of just over 27,000 steeped in Wild West frontier history she eventually supported a local mask mandate to help reduce the spread of covid-19.
Warshaw, a Republican, resigned last week after she said she started receiving death threats and harassing messages for her city commission vote in November
, a vote she says she doesn’t regret.
“Life has dealt out many challenges in our world that have perhaps caused many people to act inappropriately,” she wrote in her resignation letter, “but I do not feel safe in this position anymore and am hopeful in removing myself this anger, accusations and abuse will not fall on anyone else and will calm down.”