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Thurston COVID-19 Update: Thurston County Health Officer Letter to The Community

Submitted by Thurston County General public Health

Letter to the Local community: December 23, 2021

Howdy Thurston County! The omicron variant is spreading across the United States at a a lot extra quick tempo than the delta variant, subsequently, causing an exponential rise in COVID-19 situations in nations all around the globe. The CDC reported that 73{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of new conditions in the US are triggered by the omicron variant. This is considered to be due to an boost in the virus transmissibility as well as its likely to reinfect men and women who ended up previously contaminated with COVID-19. This is also leading to an improved threat of breakthrough bacterial infections in folks who are vaccinated. Vaccines show up to stop intense ailment and demise for people who are completely vaccinated, and individuals who have gained a booster dose are at considerably lessened hazard of an infection with omicron.

Omicron spreads the way former variants have unfold, as a result of droplets and aerosols. This implies that in the course of this holiday time it is even more vital to stay vigilant. Vacations are a time when several persons assemble to celebrate and with omicron spreading, reducing gatherings with men and women not in your family is critical. If you decide on to show up at a accumulating, use a mask and retain six ft or much more of distance among you and many others exactly where achievable. Continue to be property if you have signs of COVID-19 irrespective of your vaccination standing. These actions are however efficient and support avert an infection and spread of COVID-19 if you turn out to be unwell.

Some gatherings may require proof of vaccination and/or a detrimental COVID-19 check prior to attending. Get examined if you have any indicators of COVID-19, and take a look at 5-7 times just after a possible exposure to assist stop distribute of disorder. The ideal way to secure oneself and your neighborhood from COVID-19 is by acquiring vaccinated and receiving boosters when you turn out to be suitable. If you haven’t been vaccinated but or obtained your booster, be sure to do so as quickly as probable.

In common, lesser gatherings are safer than larger types and outside gatherings are safer than indoor kinds. It is usually important to avoid crowded, inadequately ventilated indoor spaces and opening home windows can increase ventilation. When collecting take into account the basic safety of people at large-risk of severe disorder, together with those who are immunocompromised or have other comorbidities. Some persons may possibly choose to mask indoors even in personal options to more defend themselves or other people in the substantial-possibility class. Children underneath five are not nonetheless qualified for vaccine, so take into consideration masks for kids over age two and manage wholesome hand cleanliness. Whilst it may not often be probable, testing in just 72 hrs of collecting and isolating if good can increase an added stage of defense, specially if carried out the working day of the accumulating.

CDC assistance for the holiday seasons can be found in this article.

Washington Point out Section of Wellness Safer Accumulating Checklist can be identified here.

Information and facts on screening destinations in Thurston County can be discovered right here.

Though this is not where we hoped we would be at this stage in the pandemic and we are still mastering about omicron, if we operate alongside one another to preserve ourselves and our communities safe and sound, I know we can fulfill this problem and make it to the other aspect.

Wishing you the ideal of health,

Dimyana Abdelmalek, MD, MPH

Well being Officer, Thurston County

December 24, 2021
ERIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROVIDES COVID-19 DATA UPDATE FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 11, 2021

ERIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROVIDES COVID-19 DATA UPDATE FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 11, 2021

ERIE COUNTY, NY – The Erie County Department of Health (ECDOH) is providing an update on COVID-19 data. For the week ending December 11, 2021, ECDOH received reports for 4,345 new COVID-19 cases among Erie County residents, a 22{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} decrease from the previous week. This weekly case count is very similar to pre-Thanksgiving holiday levels. Erie County’s COVID-19 case rate of 455 cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days for the week ending December 11 is a decrease from the previous week’s case rate of 580. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) set a case rate threshold of 100 or more cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days for a community to be considered to have “high transmission.”

31{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of new COVID-19 cases last week were among city of Buffalo residents. For reference, city of Buffalo residents make up 29{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of all Erie County residents. This past week the ZIP codes with the highest seven-day case rates per 100,000 persons were: 14202 (Buffalo, 29 cases), 14034 (Collins, 19 cases), 14218 (Buffalo, 131 cases), 14032 (Clarence Center, 53 cases) and 14212 (Buffalo, 70 cases). The small population of some of these ZIP codes can be impacted by a relatively small number of new COVID-19 cases. Eight ZIP codes have 7-day case rates of more than 600 new cases per 100,000 residents.

Contact tracing case investigations continue to note family and household clusters of COVID-19 cases. With the holiday season approaching, ECDOH encourages people who plan to gather with friends and family to stay home and away from others if ill. Also, COVID-19 testing is a tool to make sure you know your COVID-19 status before small gatherings, especially if other guests are elderly, have chronic medical or immunocompromising conditions, are pregnant, or unvaccinated.

About 48,000 COVID-19 test reports were received last week, an increase from the previous week’s total. Weekly test reports have remained stable over the past four weeks. ECDOH and health care providers within Erie County still have substantial diagnostic testing capacity. People who are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, regardless of vaccination status, should strongly consider a diagnostic COVID-19 test. The New York State Department of Health maintains a list of testing locations. ECDOH created a list of community COVID-19 testing resources for parents and caregivers. Free COVID-19 tests are available through ECDOH by calling 716-858-2929 to schedule an appointment. Appointments are required for COVID-19 testing through ECDOH. Wait times for ECDOH appointment telephone line are longest in the morning. Callers may choose to call after 10 a.m. if they want to avoid a wait.

The weekly positivity rate was 9.0{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}, down from 10.8{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} for the week ending December 4. Positivity rates declined in all age groups, though children under age 18 years continue to have the highest positivity rates. For all cases under age 18, the positivity percentage was 10{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}; for all case ages 18 years and older, the positivity percentage was 8.7{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}. These higher positivity rates for children may reflect lower relative numbers of tests in these age groups, and a higher likelihood that symptomatic children and adolescents will seek a COVID-19 test for return to school purposes. The 30-39-year-old age group had the highest number of COVID-19 cases last week; this age group also had the highest 7-day case rate per 100,000 persons, at 738.

For children under age 18 years, case totals decreased from the previous week by about 23{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}, to 1,345 cases, in line with the 22{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} decrease in countywide cases.

The school team in the ECDOH Office of Epidemiology is managing a large volume of cases among k-12 students and school staff. Data for the week ending December 4 are incomplete* because official test reports are pending. The Thanksgiving holiday may have contributed to a lower number of tests and positive test results for the week ending November 27.

With 374 COVID-19 hospitalizations reported in Erie County hospitals on December 12, 2021, the number of patients admitted to Erie County hospitals with COVID-19 has remained stable over the past two weeks. [See chart at end of release]. 258 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (69{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}) were not fully vaccinated. Among those patients, 59 (77{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}) of 77 patients admitted to the ICU were not fully vaccinated; and, 42 (79{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}) of 53 patients with an airway assist were not fully vaccinated. Vaccines work to reduce the risk of serious illness and hospitalization. The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) publishes statewide data for COVID-19 cases over time by vaccination status, and daily hospital admissions over time by vaccination status.

ECDOH is reporting COVID-19 mortality data. ECDOH received reports of 52 COVID-19 associated deaths in the past seven days; these reports were from November and December. Total COVID-19-related deaths from March 2020 to December 9, 2021 now stand at 2,255, with 979 reported in 2021. CDC publishes national rates of COVID-19 related cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status at https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-status.

Through December 13, 26.1{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of 5-11-year-olds in Erie County have at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. All adult age groups have at least 70{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of those populations with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Additional data, including vaccination estimates by ZIP code, are posted to the ECDOH web site. NYSDOH also updates vaccination data by demographics, by county and by ZIP code.

ECDOH has an active schedule of COVID-19 vaccine clinics, listed at www.erie.gov/vax. Additional clinics have been added throughout the county through December 30. Clinics for 5-11-year-olds are listed at www.erie.gov/vax. ECDOH will also vaccinate any eligible Erie County resident at their home. Call (716) 858-2929 for the “Vax Visit” program.

ECDOH encourages Erie County residents who are not fully vaccinated to begin their COVID-19 vaccine series. COVID-19 vaccination is especially important for youth and families attending school or child care.

Following recent FDA authorization for COVID-19 vaccine booster doses for 16- and 17-year-olds, ECDOH vaccine clinics will provide a COVID-19 booster dose to anyone age 16 years and older as long as enough time has elapsed from their initial series completion (6 months for Pfizer and Moderna; 2 months for J&J). ECDOH encourages people to review the recommended booster eligibility criteria, evaluate their risk factors and talk to their own physician with questions. NYSDOH has further information about booster doses.

Finally, CDC and NYSDOH have begun to report influenza data for the 2021-2022 flu season. Influenza activity remains low nationally but continues to increase. There are early signs that flu vaccination uptake is down this season compared to last. ECDOH reminds all residents that there is still time to get a flu vaccine; flu vaccine is recommended for everyone ages 6 months and older. Flu can have serious complications for older adults, individuals with immunocompromising medical conditions, pregnant women and infants.

Chart: Erie County Hospitalization Data, last two weeks (November 29- December 12, 2021).
Data Sources: New York State Department of Health and Erie County hospitals

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ECDOH, COVID-19 vaccine info & clinic schedule: http://www.erie.gov/vax

ECDOH, COVID-19 Information Line: (716) 858-2929 – foreign language interpretation available

ECDOH, COVID-19 Weekly Data Updates: https://www2.erie.gov/health/index.php?q=covid-19-media-data

New York State Department of Health, COVID-19 Boosters: http://ny.gov/boosters

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December 15, 2021
ERIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROVIDES COVID-19 DATA UPDATE FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 4, 2021

ERIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROVIDES COVID-19 DATA UPDATE FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 4, 2021

ERIE COUNTY, NY – The Erie County Department of Health (ECDOH) is providing an update on COVID-19 data. For the week ending December 4, 2021, ECDOH received reports for 5,537 new COVID-19 cases among Erie County residents, a 30{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} increase from the previous week and represents an all-time weekly high total of cases. Erie County’s COVID-19 case rate of 580 cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days for the week ending December 4 is an increase from the previous week’s case rate of 448. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) set a case rate threshold of 100 or more cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days for a community to be considered to have “high transmission.”

29{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of new COVID-19 cases last week were among city of Buffalo residents. For reference, city of Buffalo residents make up 29{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of all Erie County residents. This past week the ZIP codes with the highest seven-day case rates per 100,000 persons were: 14203 (Buffalo, 20 cases), 14055 (East Concord, 15 cases), 14057 (Eden, 75 cases), 14218 (Lackawanna, 173 cases) and 14086 (Lancaster, 278 cases). Five ZIP codes had a case rate of more than 800 new cases per 100,000 residents over seven days. Of note: 14203 and 14055 ZIP codes have smaller populations, and their case rate can be impacted significantly by case totals. Twenty-five ZIP codes have 7-day case rates of more than 600 new cases per 100,000 residents.

Contact tracing case investigations continue to note family and household clusters of COVID-19 cases. With the holiday season approaching, ECDOH encourages people who plan to gather with friends and family to stay home and away from others if ill. Also, COVID-19 testing is a tool to make sure you know your COVID-19 status before small gatherings, especially if other guests are elderly, have chronic medical or immunocompromising conditions, are pregnant, or unvaccinated.

About 51,000 COVID-19 test reports were received last week, an increase from the previous week’s total, and the most tests reported in one week since April 2021. Weekly test reports have remained stable over the past four weeks. ECDOH and health care providers within Erie County still have substantial diagnostic testing capacity. People who are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, regardless of vaccination status, should strongly consider a diagnostic COVID-19 test. The New York State Department of Health maintains a list of testing locations. ECDOH created a list of community COVID-19 testing resources for parents and caregivers. Free COVID-19 NAAT tests are available through ECDOH by calling 716-858-2929 to schedule an appointment. Appointments are required for COVID-19 testing through ECDOH. Wait times for ECDOH appointment telephone line are longest in the morning. Callers may choose to call after 10 a.m. if they want to avoid a wait.

The weekly positivity rate was 10.8{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}, up from 9.9{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} for the week ending November 27. This is the highest weekly positivity percentage since the earliest stages of the pandemic in May 2020, when testing capacity was low. The 30-39-year-old age group had the highest number of COVID-19 cases last week; this age group also had the highest 7-day case rate per 100,000 persons, at 899. The age groups with the highest positivity rates children under 14 years old: 12{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} for 0-4-year-olds; 13.2{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} for 5-10-year-olds; 16.4{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} for 11-13-year-olds; and, 13.7{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} for 14-17-year-olds. These higher positivity rates may reflect lower relative numbers of tests in these age groups, and a higher likelihood that symptomatic children and adolescents will seek a COVID-19 test for return to school purposes.

For children under age 18 years, case totals increased from the previous week by about 25{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}, to 1,345 cases.

Cases among children under 18 years comprised 25{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of all cases reported for last week.

The school team in the ECDOH Office of Epidemiology is managing a large volume of cases among k-12 students and school staff. Data for the week ending November 27 are incomplete* because official test reports are pending. The Thanksgiving holiday may have contributed to a lower number of tests and positive test results for the week ending November 27. These weekly totals remain higher than at any other point in this academic year or the previous academic year.

With 376 COVID-19 hospitalizations reported in Erie County hospitals on December 5, 2021, the number of patients admitted to Erie County hospitals with COVID-19 has ranged from a low of 284 hospitalizations to a high of 376 hospitalizations over the past two weeks [See chart at end of release]. 257 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (68{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}) were not fully vaccinated. Among those patients, 51 (74{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}) of 69 patients admitted to the ICU were not fully vaccinated; and, 36 (72{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}) of 50 patients with an airway assist were not fully vaccinated. Vaccines work to reduce the risk of serious illness and hospitalization. The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) publishes statewide data for COVID-19 cases over time by vaccination status, and daily hospital admissions over time by vaccination status.

ECDOH is reporting COVID-19 mortality data. ECDOH received reports of 52 COVID-19 associated deaths in the past seven days; these reports were from October, November and December. Total COVID-19-related deaths from March 2020 to December 2, 2021 now stand at 2,203, with 927 reported in 2021. CDC publishes national rates of COVID-19 related cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status at https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-status.

With data compiled by the ECDOH epidemiology office through December 6, 2021, 23.9{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of 5-11-year-olds in Erie County have at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Additional data, including vaccination estimates by ZIP code, are posted to the ECDOH web site. NYSDOH also updates vaccination data by demographics, by county and by ZIP code.

ECDOH has an active schedule of COVID-19 vaccine clinics, listed at www.erie.gov/vax. Additional clinics have been added throughout the county through December 30. Clinics for 5-11-year-olds are listed at www.erie.gov/vax. ECDOH will also vaccinate any eligible Erie County resident at their home. Call (716) 858-2929 for the “Vax Visit” program.

ECDOH encourages Erie County residents who are not fully vaccinated to begin their COVID-19 vaccine series. COVID-19 vaccination is especially important for youth and families attending school or child care.

ECDOH vaccine clinics will provide a COVID-19 booster dose to anyone age 18 and older as long as enough time has elapsed from their initial series completion (6 months for Pfizer and Moderna; 2 months for J&J). ECDOH encourages people to review the recommended booster eligibility criteria, evaluate their risk factors and talk to their own physician with questions. NYSDOH has further information about booster doses.

Chart: Erie County Hospitalization Data, last two weeks (November 22, 2021-December 5, 2021); data for Nov. 25, 2021 not available due to Thanksgiving holiday.

Data Sources: New York State Department of Health and Erie County hospitals

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ECDOH, COVID-19 vaccine info & clinic schedule: http://www.erie.gov/vax

ECDOH, COVID-19 Information Line: (716) 858-2929 – foreign language interpretation available

ECDOH, COVID-19 Weekly Data Updates: https://www2.erie.gov/health/index.php?q=covid-19-media-data

New York State Department of Health, COVID-19 Boosters: http://ny.gov/boosters

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December 10, 2021
Mosaic Counseling & Wellness provides tips for positive holiday mental health – Shelby County Reporter
By MICHELLE Appreciate | Workers Writer

The holidays can be equally a joyous and annoying time of 12 months. With various household capabilities, worry to acquire presents and other chaotic triggers, balancing one’s mental wellness can appear an unattainable endeavor but with the correct resources, navigating this year can be a delight.

Elizabeth Cook, founder of Mosaic Counseling & Wellness in Alabaster and Helena, sales opportunities a staff of highly trained clinical counselors, lifetime coaches and yoga instructors in an effort and hard work to supply equally mental and physical healing to their customers. Their highly qualified workforce with of more than 75 decades of put together expertise help people find healing, stability and greater means of dealing with life’s stressors.

“If we really do not master approaches to deal with tension and trauma, the results become detrimental to our physical and mental wellbeing,” Cook explained. “When we deal with stress filled or traumatic cases, stress hormones like cortisol flood our bodies, and in excess of time this can cause organ problems and procedure dysfunction, precisely to the immune procedure and our rate of metabolism. Chronic worry is like a slow-performing poison in our bodies.”

The Mosaic Counseling & Wellness group suggested these beneficial strategies to retain well being throughout the holiday period:
- Be aware of your restrictions. Around-committing is widespread this time of yr and can zap the pleasure suitable out of you. We could all profit from knowledge what our “Allostatic Load” is, or your unique threshold for uncomfortable predicaments. Placing boundaries on the front stop will conserve you from burnout later. Asking you, “If I had been loving myself properly correct now, what would I opt for to do?” can be beneficial in identifying if you are taking on as well substantially.
- Keep in a real looking finances and do not put pressure on your self to uncover the “perfect” presents. Get innovative and come across methods to maintain you from accruing post-Xmas credit card debt by sticking to your practical price range. “There are lots of applications like You Have to have a Finances that are good for this,” Prepare dinner stated. “Finances play a big part in mental health.”
- Lean on your assistance program and have safe men and women offered to communicate to if you do get pressured, nervous or depressed. No matter if this is household, mates, coworkers, or a specialist, make absolutely sure you have another person to communicate to when factors develop into hard. “Now more than at any time, we want neighborhood,” Prepare dinner explained. “After so a great deal time isolated, it is time to get back again with men and women and practical experience the healing electricity of safe and sound group. We cannot wait to commence featuring teams immediately after the initially of the yr to even more nurture this need. Asking for help is not weakness, it is the most courageous issue you can do when you are battling- we were being not made to do everyday living alone.”
- Instructing your young children healthful body boundaries is vitally vital. Cook reported forcing young ones to hug, kiss or sit on the laps of household associates or buddies when they do not want to reinforces that their actual physical discomfort is unimportant. “Listen to your kids when they are awkward in these circumstances and support them,” she claimed. “Consent is important for all ages. Having nutritious, very well-boundaried children trumps very good manners in this group. Also, maintain an eye on sugar crashes and as well very little sleep. Even the most effective mannered adults wrestle with this.
- When dealing with challenging folks or household associates, Prepare dinner emphasised the value of setting boundaries. “You really don’t owe your mental wellbeing to anybody,” she said. “Setting boundaries may perhaps bring about ripples, but the world isn’t likely to finish in excess of them.” Be proactive as a substitute of reactive. Have a prepare for when a spouse and children member says something inappropriate, desires to give unsolicited assistance or when they question into personal particulars of your life that you do not sense compelled to share about. Stating factors like, “It’s a own subject, and I’d like to keep it private” or “I know you’re speaking from your experiences, but I’m hoping points operate out in different ways for me” are totally appropriate.
“We normally like to remind folks that all of your existence activities transpire in an embodied way, your feelings and overall body are linked,” Prepare dinner stated. ”Bodily addressing tension and stress and anxiety includes procedures like breath perform mixed with considered perform that can deliver you back to a area of peace and connection.” Prepare dinner reported repeating “I am a harmless place” or “You are loved” to on your own when deeply inhaling and exhaling can rapidly carry your human body back again to a feeling of safety.

“Learning to give yourself the appreciate and treatment you so commonly give to many others is a lifestyle-switching exercise,” Prepare dinner said.

Mosaic Counseling and Wellness opened in 2019 to give holistic treatment of the brain, physique and spirit to their group and even outside of. Almost two a long time later on, this nonprofit organization has two destinations and presents a assortment of medical counseling providers, everyday living coaching, yoga courses, naturopathic drugs and workshops. In early November, Mosaic Counseling & Wellness was nominated for the Shelby County Diamond Award for excellent provider to the community. For much more details, take a look at their internet site Themosaicministries.org or visit their Fb website page.
December 3, 2021
Anoka County History: Dr. Kline’s homeopathic remedies | Free

Health care provider, businessman, and founder of the Kline Sanatorium in Anoka, James Franklin Kline, led a lengthy and hectic life devoted to bettering the wellness of as many clients as he could get to no matter of their status and capacity to spend.

For his attempts he won wide renown in the condition and beyond.

Kline paid out $30,000 in design expenses for the duration of 1902 (approximately $878,065 in 2019 dollars).

The construction featured prominently on the east facet of Ferry Road on the Mississippi and Rum River financial institutions up coming to the Anoka-Champlin Mississippi River Bridge (first manufactured in 1884).

Dr. Kline specialised in gall bladder diseases even though he addressed a variety of medical illnesses like sinus and respiratory challenges with the permitted strategies of the working day these kinds of as surgical, electrical (for nervous conditions and other ailments), massage, Swedish movements, and an assortment of baths, some medicated. Despite the fact that generally sensationalized in popular media, the electrotherapy strategies of more than a century back ended up an advancement in patient security and utility for dealing with many problems. By 1900, most doctors averted the critical shocks sent in early therapies, and rather they gave measured doses to encourage goal spots.

Electrotherapy was indicated, for illustration, in circumstances exactly where muscle groups experienced atrophied because of to major personal injury. The client might get better some movement and power as effectively as come to feel relief of ache. Electrotherapy is now utilised all over the world to shrink cancerous tumors in people and animals, and it is also greatly utilized in physical therapy and japanese medication for muscular, joint, circulation, and other complications.

Dr. Kline obtained education in homeopathy, osteopathy, and chiropractic techniques and was perfectly being informed on the most recent health-related procedures of his working day. He thought in holistic and preventive treatment and took a solid desire in his patients’ diet and operate practices. Homeopathy was a popular clinical approach around the 12 months 1900. There were being 22 homeopathic healthcare faculties in the country and 100 homeopathic hospitals. Homeopathy had been a expanding health care specialty for a fifty percent century and was very well-highly regarded as a strategy for managing patients when carried out by properly trained doctors. The P. H. Mallen Firm of Chicago, founded in 1894, was a main provider of homeopathic medications, commonly offered in the well-known brown glass bottle with a square base, convenient for transport.

An primary basic principle of homeopathy is “like treats like.” This indicates that, supplied the disease of a unwell particular person, if a substance makes related but lesser signs or symptoms of the sickness in a nutritious particular person, then the substance will overcome the issue in the ill individual. Weird as that strategy seems nowadays, it has manufactured results. A single of the to start with treatment plans found by this principle was the capability of quinine to reduce malarial signs and symptoms. Significant doses of quinine (or its progenitor, cinchona plant extract) gave healthful people problems, hives, and fever. A dilution of quinine fixed all those symptoms in malarial patients. Other homeopathic ideas, these types of as the use of abnormal dilutions of medications so that the affected individual receives rarely something of the medication, defy modern-day logic, but the homeopathic practice of creating a holistic assessment of the patient’s living problems, operate activity, and condition of health, together with the perceived harmlessness of homeopathic remedies, created homeopathic medication preferred and effective. Meanwhile, the professional medical physician normally addressed the patient as a checklist of signs or symptoms to be eradicated.

Homeopaths of Dr. Kline’s generation have been additional open to combining their strategies with current orthodox health care methods, and allopaths (the expression employed for typical health care medical practitioners) turned increasingly interested in homeopathic and other option cures. By 1903, the American Healthcare Affiliation last but not least invited homeopathic medical practitioners to join the business.

Though in later on many years in the twentieth century, homeopathy turned greatly derided as an unscientific apply, it remains right now just one of the recognized branches of different medicine for persons looking for non-invasive cures or the avoidance of pharmaceutical medication. A single could argue that James’ well known cures — his medications, therapeutic baths and electrical therapies — had been not strong drugs, but they normally attained the ideal final result of better health and fitness.

This is an excerpt from an approaching booklet at the Anoka County Historic Society featuring the Kline Sanatorium. It will be on sale ready for the holidays. Understand far more about the historic modern society at anokacountyhistory.org.

December 2, 2021
ERIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROVIDES COVID-19 DATA UPDATE FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 27, 2021

ERIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROVIDES COVID-19 DATA UPDATE FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 27, 2021

ERIE COUNTY, NY – The Erie County Department of Health (ECDOH) is providing an update on COVID-19 data. For the week ending November 27, 2021, ECDOH received reports for 4,271 new COVID-19 cases among Erie County residents, a 2{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} decrease from the previous week. This decline may be attributable to fewer tests occurring in the latter half of that week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. This also represents a 145{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} increase in COVID-19 cases in the past six reporting weeks, and a 59{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} increase in the past four reporting weeks. Erie County’s COVID-19 case rate of 448 cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days for the week ending November 27 is slight decrease from the previous week’s case rate of 456. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) set a case rate threshold of 100 or more cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days for a community to be considered to have “high transmission.”

30{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of new COVID-19 cases last week were among city of Buffalo residents. For reference, city of Buffalo residents make up 29{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of all Erie County residents. This past week the ZIP codes with the highest seven-day case rates per 100,000 persons were: 14025 (Boston, 32 cases), 14086 (Lancaster, 225 cases), 14141 (Springville, 52 cases), 14004 (Alden, 77 cases) and 14057 (Eden, 52 cases). 17 ZIP codes had a case rate of more than 500 new cases per 100,000 residents over seven days.

Contact tracing case investigations continue to note family and household clusters of COVID-19 cases. With the holiday season approaching, ECDOH encourages people who plan to gather with friends and family to stay home and away from others if ill. Also, COVID-19 testing is a tool to make sure you know your COVID-19 status before small gatherings, especially if other guests are elderly, have chronic medical or immunocompromising conditions, are pregnant, or unvaccinated.

About 43,200 COVID-19 test reports were received last week, a small decrease from the previous week’s total. Weekly test reports have remained very stable over the past four weeks. ECDOH and health care providers within Erie County still have substantial diagnostic testing capacity. People who are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, regardless of vaccination status, should strongly consider a diagnostic COVID-19 test. The New York State Department of Health maintains a list of testing locations. ECDOH created a list of community COVID-19 testing resources for parents and caregivers. Free COVID-19 NAAT tests are available through ECDOH by calling 716-858-2929 to schedule an appointment. Appointments are required for COVID-19 testing through ECDOH. Wait times for ECDOH appointment telephone line are longest in the morning. Callers may choose to call after 10 a.m. if they want to avoid a wait.

The weekly positivity rate was 9.9{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}, up from 9.4{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} for the week ending November 20. This is the highest weekly positivity percentage since the earliest stages of the pandemic in May 2020. The 30-39-year-old age group had the highest number of COVID-19 cases last week, which represents a seven-day case rate of 693 per 100,000 persons in that age group. The age groups with the highest positivity rates were school-aged children: 12.6{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} for 5-10-year-olds; 14.8{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} for 11-13-year-olds; and, 13.7{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} for 14-17-year-olds. These higher positivity rates may reflect lower relative numbers of tests in these age groups, and a higher likelihood that symptomatic children and adolescents will seek a COVID-19 test for return to school purposes. Every age group, except ages 80 and older, had a positivity rate of more than 8{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}.

For children under age 18 years, case totals decreased by 53 COVID-19 cases last week from the previous week, to 1,072 COVID-19 cases. Cases among children under 18 years comprised 25{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of all cases reported for last week, an increase from October 2021 when that proportion was ~22-23{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}.

The school team in the ECDOH Office of Epidemiology is managing a large volume of cases among k-12 students and school staff. Data for the week ending November 13 and November 20 are incomplete* because official test reports are pending. These weekly totals remain higher than at any other point in this academic year or the previous academic year.

ECDOH announced that it was piloting a “Test to Stay” program with Grand Island Central School District starting December 6. Broadly, in a school using TTS, k-12 students who are not fully vaccinated and close contacts of a COVID-19 case from a school exposure would have a rapid COVID-19 test before each school day as part of a modified quarantine. Students with a household exposure would not be eligible, nor would school staff. The student would attend school that day if their test result was negative. A positive test result would mean the student is excluded from school and placed in isolation at home. ECDOH will evaluate pilot program outcomes and decide on next steps.

With 334 COVID-19 hospitalizations reported in Erie County hospitals on November 28, 2021, the number of patients admitted to Erie County hospitals with COVID-19 has ranged from a low of 203 hospitalizations to a high of 334 hospitalizations over the past two weeks [See chart at end of release]. 211 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (63{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}) were not fully vaccinated. Among those patients, 42 (69{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}) of 61 patients admitted to the ICU were not fully vaccinated; and, 32 (70{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}) of 46 patients with an airway assist were not fully vaccinated. Vaccines work to reduce the risk of serious illness and hospitalization. The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) publishes statewide data for COVID-19 cases over time by vaccination status, and daily hospital admissions over time by vaccination status.

ECDOH is reporting COVID-19 mortality data. ECDOH received reports of 8 COVID-19 associated deaths in the past seven days. Total COVID-19-related deaths from March 2020 to November 25, 2021 now stand at 2,151, with 875 reported in 2021. CDC publishes national rates of COVID-19 related cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status at https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-status.

With data compiled by the ECDOH epidemiology office through November 29, 2021, 21{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of 5-11-year-olds in Erie County have at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Additional data, including vaccination estimates by ZIP code, are posted to the ECDOH web site. NYSDOH also updates vaccination data by demographics, by county and by ZIP code.

ECDOH has an active schedule of COVID-19 vaccine clinics, listed at www.erie.gov/vax. Clinics for 5-11-year-olds are listed at www.erie.gov/vax. ECDOH will also vaccinate any eligible Erie County resident at their home. Call (716) 858-2929 for the “Vax Visit” program.

ECDOH encourages Erie County residents who are not fully vaccinated to begin their COVID-19 vaccine series. COVID-19 vaccination is especially important for youth and families attending school or child care.

ECDOH vaccine clinics will provide a COVID-19 booster dose to anyone age 18 and older as long as enough time has elapsed from their initial series completion (6 months for Pfizer and Moderna; 2 months for J&J). ECDOH encourages people to review the recommended booster eligibility criteria, evaluate their risk factors and talk to their own physician with questions. NYSDOH has further information about booster doses.

Chart: Erie County Hospitalization Data, last two weeks (November 15, 2021-November 28, 2021); data for Nov. 25, 2021 not available due to Thanksgiving holiday.
Data Sources: New York State Department of Health and Erie County hospitals

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ECDOH, COVID-19 vaccine info & clinic schedule: http://www.erie.gov/vax

ECDOH, COVID-19 Information Line: (716) 858-2929 – foreign language interpretation available

ECDOH, COVID-19 Weekly Data Updates: https://www2.erie.gov/health/index.php?q=covid-19-media-data

New York State Department of Health, COVID-19 Boosters: http://ny.gov/boosters

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December 1, 2021