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Friday, April 9, 2021
By DANA LARSEN / Pilot-Tribune Editor
The local COVID-19 vaccination effort is beginning to reach out for harder-to-reach populations, including minorities and college students.
A clinic is being set up for local Hispanic and Latino populations on Sunday, April 18. at AEA. SALUD multicultural health coalition is helping Public Health to reach those residents.
SALUD board member Emilia Marroquin was invited to speak during Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds live streamed press conference Wednesday on reaching the states multicultural population with COVID-19 information.
Gov. Reynolds noted that the Hispanic/Latino population, estimated at 200,000, is Iowas largest ethnic group. Confusion, lack of access to health care or language barriers may be holding the group back from obtaining vaccine, she said, noting that 60 percent of that population are saying that they do not have enough information on where and how to get vaccine. Reynolds noted that vaccination
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INTERVIEW: Pam Bouge Retiring Health Administrator in Buena Vista County Talks about the Evolution of Public Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic
A top health official in northwest Iowa retired on Monday after working more than 23-years with Buena Vista County Public Health and Home Care. Pam Bogue worked first as a nurse and then administrator for the county health department. She previously worked in long-term care facility administration. Bogue talked to Siouxland Public Media’s Sheila Brummer about the past year of COVID-19, including mitigation efforts and Tyson Foods.
Pam Bogue with daughters at her retirement party in Storm Lake, Iowa on April 5, 2021
Friday, December 11, 2020
By DANA LARSEN / Pilot-Tribune Editor
Public health officials are beginning to get word from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Operation Warp Speed about arrival of long-awaited coronavirus vaccine - which will far fall short of need.
Buena Vista County Public Health was told this week that its first allocation after the vaccine is approved will be 500 doses.
That isnt even enough to fully serve the first group in line to receive vaccine - front line health care workers. There are about 775 of those people in the county, according to BV Public Health Director Pam Bogue. A whole lot of them are nurses, but this also includes people such as dentists and mental health counselors.