7 news Anchor Makenzie Burk spoke with regional health department director Brandie Combs in Monday’s COVID questions segment, hoping to clear things up about the do’s and don’ts of the vaccine.
Covid Questions By Makenzie Burk | January 29, 2021 at 8:32 PM CST - Updated January 29 at 8:32 PM
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - A big challenge people seem to be face in getting the COVID-19 vaccine is availability of appointments.
Weâre hearing through our COVID Questions email that people are registering for the vaccine, but when they go to book an appointment, there are none available.
Regional Health Director Brandie Combs says that itâs time for those who received the first dose of the vaccine to get the second dose and the Health Department is trying to keep up with getting second doses of the vaccine out.
OSDH changes focus to vaccinations, reduces contact tracing
OSDH changes focus to vaccinations, reduces contact tracing-1/27/21 By Makenzie Burk | January 27, 2021 at 5:58 PM CST - Updated January 27 at 6:14 PM
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) -The Oklahoma State Department of Health has stopped contact tracing, except for a few select groups.
Instead, theyâre asking the general public to do their own contact tracing.
Since the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, priorities have shifted to getting as many people vaccinated as possible, taking away the man power to devote to contact tracing.
âInitially we were going out and we were calling every single person every positive case weâre doing an interview and weâre asking who youâve been around so that we can then ask them to quarantine, stay at home, stay out of the public,â said Brandie Combs, Regional Health Department Director. âAs we progress through this pandemic everyone knows what they should do an
Originally published on January 27, 2021 10:35 am
Sixty-four years ago, residents of this tiny town in southwestern Kansas set a public health example by making it the first in the nation to be fully inoculated against polio.
It s a different story today.
People in Protection, like those in many rural communities, stand divided over how to slow the spread of the coronavirus and the safety of the vaccines being rolled out to protect them. A lot of people still believe it [COVID-19] is made up and that it s not as bad as the media is saying, says Steve Herd, a 72-year-old farmer who was in the third grade on the day that virtually every resident of Protection under age 40 got a polio shot.