Health Department To Continue To Prioritize High Risk Group For COVID-19 Vaccine ksmu.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ksmu.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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It s been quite a year, and I m sure that the prospect of leading during a pandemic was probably always in the back of your mind when you became director of the Springfield Greene County Health Department back in 2017. But did you ever think that day would actually come?
Oh, you know, it s a possibility. But, you know, you re seeing pictures of the Spanish flu, and they re grainy black and white photos. And so you don t think that it s probably going to happen during your tenure, but you always have to be prepared for those sorts of things, and so it’s been an interesting experience.
As outgoing Springfield-Greene County Health Department director, Clay Goddard, spoke Friday at a mass vaccination clinic in Springfield, he said it felt like he’d come full circle, because this is what healing looks like.
He said numbers are moving in the right direction. COVID-19 case numbers and hospital admittance numbers are declining and more and more people are getting vaccines.
Last week there was only one case of COVID-19 in a long-term care facility resident. That compares to 132 in the first week of January, according to Goddard.
During his last press briefing before retiring from the health department to work for the Missouri Foundation for Health, Goddard praised the collaboration between the health department and city and county leaders in fighting COVID-19. But he criticized those who he said politicized the pandemic.
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