The growing immigrant population in Daviess County will be able to move toward citizenship because of a new offering by the Daviess County Health Department.
At least three times this summer the skies in and around Daviess County have been filled with an unhealthy haze. Smoke from Canadian forest fires has been driven south by
December has been a challenging month at the Daviess County Security Center. The sheriff and jail officers have been trying to combat COVID in the jail.
âWe are better now than we were one month ago,â said Daviess County Sheriff Gary Allison. âWe have no inmates with COVID and none of the staff are off because of it.â
County officials had fought to keep COVID out of the facility since the first cases began showing up last March. But eventually the disease got into the jail and began impacting prisoners and staff alike.
âIt was a real challenge,â said Assistant Jail Commander Russ Conrad. âWe really didnât know how serious it was and it left a lot of people scared. People would be fine one day and sick the next.â
Health care workers in Daviess, Pike and Knox counties are still showing up daily to get their COVID-19 vaccinations.
On Tuesday another 181 health care professionals rolled up their sleeve and were vaccinated. Daviess Community Hospital officials say they now believe they can expand the offering from the 500 patient-facing members of the staff to the remaining 100 people.
âIt is going very well,â said Tiffany Conover, director of marketing at Good Samaritan Hospital. âWe are going to continue providing vaccinations for the foreseeable future. We expect to have phase one completed by mid-January. The clinic is going smoothly. We have had no reports of any adverse reactions. People are getting them done and we hope many more will make the decision to get vaccinated.â