Munson Healthcare to Provide COVID-19 Update on Tuesday
January 11, 2021
You can view the press conference from 11-11:45 a.m. on 9&10 Plus.
Munson Healthcare Chief Medical Officer Dr. Christine Nefcy will be joined by Munson Healthcare Chief Marketing and Communications Officer and Vice President Dianne Michalek; Wendy Hirschenberger, Health Officer for Grand Traverse County Health Department; Dr. Jennifer Morse, Medical Director of District Health Department #10; Heidi Britton, CEO of Northwest Michigan Health Services; and Lisa Peacock, Health Officer of Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department and Health Department of Northwest Michigan
The six will be providing updates and taking your questions.
While many people would like nothing more than to forget about 2020 and start fresh in 2021, the changes that society underwent this year likely wonât be going away anytime soon and could become permanent fixtures of the culture.
Among the behaviors that could become commonplace even after the immediate COVID-19 crisis is over is the use of masks in public places, at least among certain segments of the population.
Dr. Jennifer Morse, Medical Director for Central Michigan District Health Department and District Health Department No. 10, said senior citizens and those with compromised immune systems may decide to continue wearing masks, especially during flu season (or COVID season, if the disease becomes endemic in the population, as many experts believe it will).
CADILLAC â Everybody s situation is unique.
But there is little room to consider the nuances of every individual s circumstances in the middle of a pandemic.
So indicated Dr. Jennifer Morse, medical director of District Health Department No. 10, during a Munson Healthcare-organized press conference Tuesday regarding COVID-19 and the roll-out of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Dr. Morse was responding to a Cadillac News question about whether there are routes for people to become vaccinated if they feel their personal situation puts them at higher risk than their job classification, age or health status may suggest. For the fairness and ethical distribution of vaccines we really need to follow the book as much as possible, just because we need to get the vaccine out into people, Dr. Morse said. Certainly we may have one person or people that that may argue that their situation is different than someone else. But if we bend in one area we re gonna have to bend in another, a
Health Departments Educate Amish Community on COVID-19 Pandemic, Prevention
December 28, 2020
The Central Michigan District Health Department (CMDHD) is using their long-standing relationship with the local Amish community to help educate them about COVID-19 and prevention.
“It has been a continuous effort throughout all of this,” says Jennifer Morse, medical director for CMDHD and District Health Department #10.
Morse says they’ve worked with the local Amish community for years, going into schools and talking to the community about different vaccines.
“We do tend to do vaccination clinics for their children and so as we do those, we’ve already educated the Amish about the whooping cough vaccine, pneumonia vaccine, flu vaccines for their adult population,” says Morse.