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MINUTES - Draft ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH August 26,2020 • As of last Wednesday, approximately 33,126 people have been tested in Orange County which equates to roughly 22% of our population. • A testing event was held on July 22nd in Carrboro which tested over 200 community members using an outside vendor named StarMed from the Charlotte area. We have another testing event on Friday to be held on Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd in Chapel Hill across from Root Cellar in the big parking lot that belongs to the campus. The goal behind the test is to attempt to capture UNC students that reside in some of the apartment complexes and off campus housing. • The OCHD has been all hands on deck with getting the word out on some of these testing events due to the short turnaround time. We've, literallly, walked down Franklin Street promoting the testing events. Other advertising, posting the info on social media outlets as well as worked with UNC to ensure that they've included these events on their listservs to promote these testing events. • DHHS announced they awarded contracts to vendors in this state to assist some counties with some additional testing resources. Orange County is one of those counties. • Despite new CDC testing guidance regarding asymptomatic close contacts to a positive case, our state guidance hasn't changed and we'll continue to test close contacts. • DHHS is in the process of creating Regional Prevention Support Teams for long term care facilities within the counties across the state. This is similar to what we've already done in Orange County with our Strike Team that includes a CD nurse, EMS staff and a community paramedic. Each region will receive funding to create teams with the focus on prevention, not outbreak management with the goal of spreading a lot of education regarding infection control. We're in region 5 which will receive $198k for 6 months to get these teams up and going. Ms. Stewart will be the fiscal agent for this region with the help of other members of the OCHD staff that will lead to coordinate this for our region. • Age demographic of 18-24 year olds have seen an increase in positive cases. • UNC has under 1000 students living on campus. There is a hardship application process required in order to remain in the residential dorms. There was a dashboard titled "Board of Health Dashboard — OCHD COVID-19 Response" displayed. This dashboard was created by Rebecca Crawford to show how the OCHD clinics responses have been affected by COVID-19. Below are some highlights. • Patients are still being seen at both the SHSC Clinic, deemed the "well clinic" where primary care visits occur, and the Whitted Clinic, deemed the "sick clinic" for those symptomatic patients. Telehealth appointments continue to increase monthly. • The Dental Clinic continues to see emergency appointment only. • In regards to data on communications, o Communication is pretty steady with COVID nurse calls. COVID info line is Monday through Friday from 8-5pm. There hasn't been enough demand for a 24 hour or weekend shift. o COVID testing numbers include those patients that had a telehealth appointment and were instructed by the provider to come into the office for testing based off of their symptoms and those tests performed by the Strike Team. We continue to send referrals to the UNC RDC. o With the COVID funds we've received, we plan to increase testing. o We still have a strong social media presence thanks to Kristin Prelipp and the Joint Information Center (JIC). They're still doing a great job. S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agenda &Abstracts\2020 Agenda &Abstracts/ August Page 6