Tacome-Pierce County Health Department: Healthy People in Healthy Communities

Your Reliable Source Bulletin: May 31, 2022

Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department sent this bulletin at 05/31/2022 08:02 AM PDT

We’ve partnered with the state and City of Puyallup to test wastewater for COVID-19.

Many of you asked, and now we have an answer: Wastewater testing for COVID-19 is coming to Pierce County. This new tool can warn us of COVID-19 spread in our community.

We’ve been working with Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and local wastewater facilities to start local testing. Sampling started at Puyallup Water Pollution Control Plant last week. We’re working to add another facility soon.

Lean more in this Your Reliable Source blog.

Deaths of despair are up. We’re working to offer hope.

We talked about behavioral health often during the pandemic. COVID-19 has been hard on everyone. It’s taken a tragic toll in Pierce County, where we saw a jump in so-called deaths of despair.

Part of our job is to bring helpers across Pierce County together. We do this to buck these disturbing trends.

Learn more in this Your Reliable Source blog.

Can’t get vaccinated? Here’s another option to help protect you from COVID-19.

Are you unable to get a COVID-19 vaccine because of medical reasons? A new drug brings hope, and we’re working to ensure this medication is easy to access for all who need it.

In December 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Evusheld, a medication that can prevent COVID-19.

Learn more in this Your Reliable Source blog.

We updated our COVID-19 dashboard to serve you better.

You will see a new look on our COVID-19 data dashboard. You’ll find it easier to locate the data you care most about.

The dashboard changes should make the webpage load more quickly and easier to navigate on mobile devices. And to better reflect our goal of getting everyone who is eligible up to date on vaccinations, we now highlight that number on our main data page.

Learn more in this Your Reliable Source blog.

Vaccine Update

1,598,200 doses to Pierce County residents.

67.3% of all residents completed primary series.

36.6% of all residents are up to date.

6,885 doses administered last week.

More vaccine data.

People infected with hepatitis A can spread the virus before they know they have it. Many people who have hepatitis C don’t know they have it.

It's still May, and that means it's still Hepatitis Awareness Month. Find out if you’re at risk and how to protect yourself and those you love.

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Children 5 to 11 are now eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot. We have booster doses for people in this age group at all our vaccine clinics. Appointments are encouraged, but not required. You can also contact your healthcare provider or local pharmacy to find your vaccine. Find more vaccine locations at tpchd.org/vaxtothefuture.

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