“The volunteers, they just come forward and then they do such a great job,” Interim Police Chief Randy Tuttle said. “This could not be as successful as it has been
Dr. Amanda Green is a busy, busy woman; busy taking care of her family and busy taking care of her community.
Born in Corsicana, Green was raised in nearby Fairfield. She said she has âalways wanted to take care of people.â
âMedicine is all about the interactions between people,â she said. âThe science is fun, too, but the people are what really matters.â
Green attended Texas A&M University, majoring in genetics, before entering medical school at Baylor College of Medicine. She spent her residency at Duke University Medical Center and was an attending at the medical center there before she and her husband, Gregory, an orthopedic surgeon, made the move to Lamar County in 2003.
The Paris-Lamar County Health District has reported no new Covid-19 related deaths, keeping the county s total at 108. At the same time, the district reported 12 new cases.
More than 2,000 doses of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines are on their way to the Red River Valley this week, and theyâre expected to join a delayed shipment of more than 2,000 doses from last week.
Although the state is now in its 11th week of vaccine rollout, eligibility for the vaccine remains only for those who qualify as Phase 1A and 1B. That includes frontline health care workers, first responders, those 65 and older and those 16 or older with at least one chronic health condition that puts them at higher risk for severe infection.
Now considered by the state as a vaccine hub, the Paris-Lamar County Health District has been allocated 1,000 more doses of the Moderna vaccine. Also on the way are 1,000 first doses and 400 second doses delayed by last weekâs winter storm. The health district and volunteers conducted a vaccine clinic on Saturday with 590 doses transferred to the district by Paris Regional Medical Center, health district director Gina Pre
The Paris-Lamar County Health District has reported three additional Covid-19 related deaths, an 80-year-old woman, a 68-year-old man and a 71-year-old man, bringing the county s total to 108.