{"id":4690,"date":"2022-01-11T16:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:18:47","slug":"bois-forte-public-health-covid-19-case-announcement-1-11-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/bois-forte-public-health-covid-19-case-announcement-1-11-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Bois Forte Public Health COVID-19 Case Announcement 1\/11\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boozhoo,<\/p>\n<p>We had 12 cases case\u2019s yesterday.\u00a0 9 in Nett and 3 in Vermilion.\u00a0 We currently have 23 active cases on the Reservation.\u00a0 This is a HUGE jump.\u00a0 We had 13 case in the entire month of December.\u00a0 Omicron is obviously here, we can not test for it, but we can see by the jump in cases that it has reached us.\u00a0 The entire state has increased, they currently have the highest daily case counts we\u2019ve seen in the entire pandemic. \u00a0This is depressing news, since we are almost 2 full years into this.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the vaccine seems to be helping decrease how sick people are, which decreases the number of people who will need to be hospitalized and in the ICU.\u00a0 Yes, you can still get sick but you won\u2019t be as sick.<\/p>\n<p>What can you do to keep your coworkers, community and yourself safe?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please continue to wear a mask with all interactions outside of your household and while you\u2019re at work<\/li>\n<li>Keep your distance from others at work and out in the community if able<\/li>\n<li>Get your vaccine-\u00a0 make sure you\u2019ve gotten your 2 initial doses and get your booster if it\u2019s been more than 5 months for Pfizer, 6 months for moderna and 2 months for Johnson &amp; johnson<\/li>\n<li>Get tested if you have any symptoms!\u00a0 Omicron seems to be quite mild in some people so stay away from others and get tested right away if you have a new runny nose, cough, fever, sore throat<\/li>\n<li>Stay home if you have been exposed or test positive!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miigwech everyone for all of your hard work.\u00a0 It is much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Teri Morrison RN, Lead Community Health Nurse<\/p>\n<p>Bois Forte Health and Human Services<\/p>\n<p>13071 Nett Lake Road, Suite A<\/p>\n<p>Nett Lake, MN\u00a0 55772<\/p>\n<p>218-757-3295<\/p>\n<p>218-757-3335 Fax<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:thmorrison@boisforte-nsn.gov\">thmorrison@boisforte-nsn.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-4691\" src=\"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/BFPH-COVID-Case-Announcement-1-11-22-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boozhoo, We had 12 cases case\u2019s yesterday.\u00a0 9 in Nett&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-covid-19","category-hhs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}