Clatsop health officials give covid update: 'Don't get too comfortable'

September 16, 2021 00:03:01
Clatsop health officials give covid update: 'Don't get too comfortable'
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Clatsop health officials give covid update: 'Don't get too comfortable'

Sep 16 2021 | 00:03:01

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Health officials in Clatsop County held a press conference Wednesday, to give an update on the status of the pandemic locally. Here’s that story. On hand for the zoom meeting were Margo Lalich, Clatsop County Interim Health Director, Julie Geiger, Vice President of Patient Services at Columbia Memorial in Astoria, and Jason Plamonden, Chief Nursing Officer at Providence Seaside. Geiger and Plamonden said their facilities have seen COVID case numbers slow down or plateau from the recent surge that threatened to overwhelm the rural hospitals. Geiger said that during the delta surge, CMH cancelled all but emergency surgeries. Things have...

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