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Board hears nurse report: influenza higher than COVID locally, norovirus spike and school-vaccine noncompliance falling
Summary
Public health nurses reported influenza outpacing COVID locally, a sharp rise in suspected norovirus activity, a salmonella cluster, rising syphilis with treatment supply issues, and current school vaccine noncompliance at 761 of 9,366 students.
At its meeting the Framingham City Board of Health received an update from public health nursing staff on respiratory and other infectious-disease trends, vaccine clinics and school-immunization compliance.
Linda (public health nurse) reported respiratory visits rising so that 16% of emergency-department visits are respiratory-related, with influenza cases outnumbering COVID cases roughly two-to-one. She said national counts reported 28 adult and 2 pediatric influenza deaths this season. Local activity was described as rising from moderate to high and MetroWest activity at very high.
Nursing staff showed surveillance data from Neurostat indicating norovirus activity has…
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