PAYETTE COUNTY — On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration issued a joint statement recommending that COVID-19 vaccination clinics in the U.S.
PAYETTE â While the state of Idaho forecasts that the general public will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations as of May, the Payette County Office of Emergency Management finds itself with a lengthy to-do list in the meantime. Emergency Manager Adam Gonzalez presented his officeâs plan to expand vaccination clinics to the Payette County Board of Commissioners during its regular meeting on Monday.
âThe plan that the Commissioners gave us a go ahead on is to be able to setup bigger vaccine clinics,â wrote Gonzalez in an email Monday. âOur goal is to be able to provide 500 vaccines in a 4 hour period and depending on availability of vaccine, up to 1,000 doses in an 8 hour period.â
PAYETTE — While COVID-19 variants make the prognosis for the end of the pandemic hard to gauge, local case counts are presently looking stable. That’s according to Adam Gonzalez, assistant
FRUITLAND â While members of the Fruitland Chamber of Commerce are still not able to meet in person for lunch due to Idahoâs current COVID-19 guidelines, they were able to meet over zoom for a virtual luncheon on Wednesday. The topic of this meeting was the state of local response to COVID-19, as well as progress on distribution of available vaccines.
The luncheon was conducted by Annie Knudsen, newly-elected Chairwoman of the chamber Board of Directors. Following is a sample of the information given during the luncheon.
Dina Ellwanger, chief nursing officer for Saint Alphonsus in Ontario, told those in attendance that the pandemic has resulted in a ânew cultureâ within hospital facilities.