Putnam ranks 4th in state for new COViD indicator Thursday, April 29, 2021 8:38 AM
PUTNAM COUNTY On Monday, the Ohio Department of Health released a new method for tracking the COVID-19 virus throughout the state: positivity rate. Under the new county-specific measure, Putnam County ranks fourth in the state.
“The positivity rate is a new indicator,” Sherri Recker, director of nursing with the Putnam County Health Department explained on Tuesday. “Out of the total number of tests done, what rate of those people tested are positive with the PCR test.”
Recker said the PCR test is the most accurate and reliable of the COVID tests in use, adding the State only analyzes those individuals tested in such a way, and not with rapid tests commonly given in hospitals and nursing homes. According to ODH, roughly 10% of those individuals PCR tested in Putnam County have proven positive.
PCHD receives COVID vaccine Wednesday, December 23, 2020 9:37 AM PCHD Director of Nursing Sherri Recker presents an early Christmas present: one of 100 doses of Moderna Therapeutic s COVID-19 vaccine received late Tuesday morning. (Putnam Sentinel/Steven Coburn-Griffis)
OTTAWA/PUTNAM
COUNTY Late Tuesday morning, the Putnam County Health Department
received the county’s first shipment of Moderna Therapeutic’s COVID-19
vaccine.
The 100 doses came encased in a white cardboard box with
green lettering. Striped red tape sealed the box shut, and wrapped the
edges.
“It was like Christmas,” PCHD Director of Nursing Sherri
Recker said. “Everybody here is so excited and everybody in the office
Pop-Up COVID Test Site results reported Wednesday, December 16, 2020 1:32 PM
PUTNAM COUNTY Of the 345 people
tested during last week’s four-hour long Pop-Up COVID Test Site at the
fairgrounds, roughly 30% 103 individuals, 68 of whom were county
residents tested positive.
Sherri Recker, director of nursing
with the Putnam County Board of Health, reported the statistic to Board
of Health members during their regular monthly meeting last Thursday.
“We’ve
seen again an increase in cases in the last month,” Recker told the
board. “Most of those were in the first couple of weeks in November. We
had a little up-tick this week. When I last looked, there were 170 cases