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MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH October 28,2020 now consists of the medical clinic, communicable disease and nutrition teams. The newly created Community Health Services division consists of family home visiting, Family Success Alliance and Health Promotion & Education Services. A new director will be hired for this division. • Ms. Stewart congratulated Victoria Hudson on receiving the Bill Broadway award from the NCPHA. Ms. Hudson expressed her appreciation for being honored with the award and thanked Ms. Frega for the kind words she provided in the nomination packet. • The new Dental Director, Dr. Monica Meng-Haggerty, will be joining the OCHD sooner than expected. She will be starting on November 9t" D. COVID-19 Update Quintana Stewart, Health Director, gave an update on the COVID-19 status in Orange County (OC) as well as took questions from the Board. Some highlights are below. • As of today, o There are 3,088 confirmed cases and 58 deaths in OC. o There were 111 new cases in the last 7 days, an average of 15-16 cases daily. • We've seen a steady increase in cases; however, they're widespread all across the county in both rural and urban areas. There are no potential clusters or indication of a single source that we're aware of based on the information we're getting from case investigations. The increase has mostly been with the younger population and working age groups, specifically the 18-24 year olds with the 25-49 year old age group following slightly behind. • There are some new outbreaks in long term care facilities with most of them being employees. • There's a steady increase in hospitalizations in OC and the state. UNC Main is at 95% capacity. • The percent positive tests percentage for OC is currently at 3% which is below the ideal percentage of 5% or less; however, OC has been as low as 1.3%. • There have been 64,372 tests conducted. This does not translate into the number of individuals tested because some community members have been tested multiple times. Roughly 44% of the population, an increase of 3%, has been tested in Orange County. • We are attempting to make sure there are assessible testing sites in all parts of the county. StarMed consistently sets up a Wednesday testing site in the Chapel Hill area. Through state resources, we've also onboarded a new vendor, Optum Health, which will focus on testing in the Efland area. We also have testing in the northern part of the county in Hurdle Mills. The fourth Saturday of the month, we're testing in Chapel Hill at St. Thomas More. This Sunday, there is a testing event at McDougle Elementary School in Carrboro. This week, we've started daily testing at the OCHD in Hillsborough at the Whitted site. All testing is free. We've also offered free flu shots at some of the community COVID testing events. So far, 412 flu shots have been administered. • At today's Governor's press update, the eviction moratorium was extended until the end of the year for those unable to pay their rent. It was announced last week that the HOPE (Housing Opportunity to Prevent Evictions) federal funds are another resource that can assist with some emergency housing needs. For our community members that are undocumented, they are not eligible for those funds. Our housing director is aware of this and is in the process of requesting some additional resources to support community members not eligible for the HOPE funds. S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agenda &Abstracts\2020 Agenda &Abstracts/ October Page 5