Board Approves Property Tax Levy, Discusses COVID Vaccination Clinic
By Joseph Schany - | Feb 25, 2021
by Joseph Schany
The Palo Alto County Board of Supervisors gathered Tuesday morning for a regular session meeting to discuss ongoing county business.
Sarah Strohman, Director of Palo Alto County Public Health, was not available for this week’s meeting. In lieu of speaking to the Board, Strohman sent a brief message explaining that last week’s COVID vaccine clinic for the county’s elderly population, originally scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 17, had been canceled due to not receiving the expected shipment of vaccine because of inclement weather.
Supervisors Discuss Frustrations Over COVID Vaccine Scheduling
By Joseph Schany - | Feb 18, 2021
by Joseph Schany
“We have seen a little bit of an increase,” began Sarah Strohman, director of Palo Alto County Public Health, providing an update on county COVID-19 numbers to the Board of Supervisors Tuesday morning. “We currently have 33 active cases of COVID-19 in the county and a 14-day average of 10 percent. We’ve had 19 deaths in Palo Alto County.”
Public Health held its first county COVID vaccination clinic at the VFW in Emmetsburg on Tuesday, Feb. 9, and according to Strohman, the clinic was very successful.
“We had our VFW clinic for 65 and older and vaccinated 200 people that day. It was a huge success. We’ve already got their appointments made for their booster vaccine in March. That worked very well.”