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Health department reports Region 1 anthrax exercise, routine inspections and stable tick positivity
Summary
New Canaan health department told commissioners it took part in a Region 1 full-scale anthrax exercise, completed April refuse and septic truck inspections, and reported tick submission increases but similar positivity ratios; changes in state testing limit comparisons for some pathogens.
The New Canaan health department reported it participated in a Region 1 full-scale anthrax exercise — the first large exercise the department has run since the COVID pandemic — and identified training gaps in Incident Command System roles, the health department official said.
The update, delivered to the New Canaan Human Services Advisory Commission by the health department official (S4), said the exercise revealed that "a lot of training we still need to do, and some people have forgotten what the ICS roles…
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