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Moving into the new Cole County Health Department building five years ago was like moving into a new house, Health Department Director Kristi Campbell said.
The Virginia Department of Health has added a wastewater surveillance dashboard to its COVID-19 dashboards.
When home covid tests first became available, they were flying off the shelves at Town & Country Pharmacy in New Kensington. Now the store isn’t even stocking them, said pharmacist Nicholas Roperti. Face masks are no longer sold there, either. “Nobody asks about those,” Roperti said. In the first weeks
Today the department of health and human services announced an additional almost 800,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine. >> the number of reported cases has jumped to more than 4,600 across 46 states. testing is crucial to getting monkeypox under control, but experts say there is a shocking lack of demand for testing. cnn's elizabeth cohen joins us now. it's so rare, i don't even know how one is tested for monkeypox. what does it entail? >> of course, victor, you might think it's a blood test or nasal swab. it's swabbing a lesion. so the doctor finds two lesions on the body, two of these blist...
One is pcr tests need lab capacity, need a turn around time and they have been free and are available, but in short supply, not necessarily because of the tests themselves but because of the lab turn around. and that capacity is being built and ramped down. there were no at-home tests available when joe biden took office last january. and now there are many that have been authorized by the fda and, as you heard, a lot of the private manufacturers turned their attention elsewhere this summer when nobody was interested in tests, when people thought they were finished with this so that we're ramp...