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Broadwater County public health reports busy flu/COVID season, services and no free home tests

6026291 · October 16, 2025
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Public Health Director Ruby Taylor said the county has administered about 143 flu/COVID vaccines in the last two weeks, is running community flu clinics, has open capacity in its skilled nursing program but not homemaker services, and no longer has free home COVID tests because the state discontinued that program.

Ruby Taylor, director of the Broadwater County Public Health Department, told commissioners the department is handling a busy start to the seasonal flu and COVID vaccination period and described available services.

Taylor said the department administered roughly 143 flu and COVID vaccines over the prior two weeks and held two off-site flu clinics at local pharmacies that vaccinated 12 people at the first…

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