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COVID-19 call centers and sites are definitive in the U. S. More Americans seek to emerge from the pandemic and the emergency declaration is expected to end in May.
In Rockland County, New York, north of New York City, the call center closed Tuesday after 3 years of operation.
The center was introduced in early March 2020 after the county fitness branch was flooded with phone calls from others asking about the virus. According to a press release, the center received 19,163 calls for its operation and provided citizens and businesses with information about COVID-19. tips, verification sites, verification effects, and how to schedule vaccination appointments.
“I commend our staff for their tireless efforts to help the network in this global pandemic,” said Dr. Brown. Patricia Schnabel, county health commissioner, in a statement. to reassign staff to another essential fitness job. “
In neighboring Massachusetts, the state Department of Public Health announced Monday that it ended its remaining loose PCR testing sites, known as “Stop the Spread” sites, at the end of March.
UMass Memorial Health, which runs one of the Worcester sites in central Massachusetts, cited “any request for COVID-19 testing” as the explanation for the fitness department’s decision.
Self-service control sites are also coming to an end. Carilion Clinic, a fitness formula in Roanoke, Virginia, closed its self-service screening sites Wednesday.
According to a press release, the sites have conducted over 340,000 tests in 3 years and have noticed staff members working from five in the morning until 11 at night.
Kim Roe, vice president of Family and Netpainting Medicine, said the testing staff “has worked tirelessly for the past three years; Their work has been invaluable in keeping our office and our communities safe. “
“A lockdown is a strange thing to celebrate, but it’s time to acknowledge all that has been completed as we move towards the endemic level of this virus,” he continued.
This comes as several COVID knowledge trackers have also shut down, adding the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, one of the first to launch in early 2020 and a major source that has filled in data gaps.
The US Department of Health and Human Services also shut down its data last month, but kept the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dashboard up and running.
According to the CDC, COVID-19 cases have been declining for several weeks. During the week of February 22, the most recent date for which it is known, a total of 236,131 cases were recorded in the United States, 48. 2% less than the 455,866 instances recorded the week of January 11.
Hospitalizations and deaths, which are lagging indicators, have also followed a downward trend. During the same period, weekly deaths rose from 4448 to 2407, according to CDC data.
The knowledge also that the average seven-day hospitalization increased from 39,837 on Jan. 11 to 22,766 on Feb. 22.
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