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Barnstable County Health & Environment outlines vaccine clinics, lab upgrades, septic loans and Clean Water Center activity
Summary
Department leaders briefed commissioners on vaccine and outreach plans, lab hires and upgrades, a well-sampling study, and Clean Water Center grants and loan activity, including a Gates Foundation grant and a growing Cape Cod Aqua Fund loan program.
Jake Gardner, director of the Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment, and division leaders presented program updates Sept. 26 covering emergency preparedness, public health nursing, environmental health services, laboratory operations and wastewater/clean-water initiatives.
Public health and vaccination: Wendy Judd, public health nurse, said Barnstable County will host a COVID-19 and influenza clinic on Oct. 27 open to the public and county employees, and that the county will offer additional clinics across the region in October. “Barnstable County is hosting a COVID and flu clinic on October 27,” she said. Judd also outlined county plans to provide monkeypox and hepatitis A vaccines in partnership with the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod at Provincetown events and to expand diabetic A1c testing in collaboration with the Visiting Nurse Association.
Laboratory updates: Dan White, laboratory director, described new hires and…
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