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Local health departments take targeted approach to reach unvaccinated

Local hospitals and health departments are changing tactics to reach those still unvaccinated. “The days of the large COVID clinics are coming to an end,” said Nick Cascarelli, Wayne County health commissioner. As fewer people book vaccine appointments, health departments in Ashland, Wayne, and Holmes counties are transitioning to more walk-in clinics and pulling back on vaccine orders.  Supply is no longer the issue to getting more people vaccinated. “It’s not an availability issue,” said Shirley Bixby, nursing director at the Ashland County Health Department. “I think the entire state is seeing saturation” of vaccine doses. Local health agencies also are holding private clinics for businesses to vaccinate their employees and reaching out to schools to administer vaccines to students as younger age groups become eligible.

COVID-19 vaccines coming soon for Ashland, Holmes, and Wayne teens

Vaccine rates have slowed over the last month in Ohio. The numbers could tick up as children ages 12 to 15 gain access to the Pfizer vaccine. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19. The FDA originally issued authorization for the use of the Pfizer vaccine in individuals 16 years of age and older. Parents or guardians who want to vaccinate their adolescents may have to wait until local administrators open clinics to the younger age group and county health departments obtain the Pfizer doses. The majority of vaccine shots administered by Holmes and Wayne County health departments have been Moderna.

COVID-19: Wayne, Holmes continue monitoring cases, hospitalizations

Wayne and Holmes counties will stick to case rates and hospitalizations to determine how their communities are managing the coronavirus, despite the newly released county positivity rates. “I wouldn’t put much bearing into those positivity rates,” said Michael Derr, health commissioner for the Holmes County General Health District. “I don’t see where it gives the public any good insight. The only thing it tells me is people aren’t getting tested.” Holmes County had the fourth-lowest number of tests per 100,000 population in the recent release of county positivity rates. The county conducted 1,458 tests per 100,000 population for a positivity rate of 6.7% in the 14 days before April 20.

Masks can come off for some, but Wayne official urges caution

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