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Board hears public-health updates: ICC closing, measles outreach and school vaccine van
Summary
The Board of Health was briefed on several public-health items including an announced June 30 closure of the ICC shelter, a rise in measles cases nationally and local vaccination outreach via a new UMass Lowell/Lowell Community Health mobile van, and questions about tuberculosis contact counts and syringe program reporting.
The Lowell Board of Health received multiple public-health updates covering a planned shelter closure, vaccination outreach, tuberculosis case-data questions and syringe-service reporting.
Director Golden (title in transcript: Director) told the board the ICC shelter would close June 30 and said city staff had been told that the roughly 200 residents there would either be found housing or moved to other hotel placements so no one would be left without temporary housing. "They will leave June 30," a board speaker said during the public-health report.
Board members also discussed measles: one board member noted there were 884 reported U.S.…
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