Our CDC Community level is currently “green”, because we have low levels of hospital usage currently. This is certainly a good thing. However, we would like you to know that the level of community spread is very high right now. Under previous guidelines, our current level of active cases would be about 3x higher than the definition for “high transmission.”
Please, stay home when you are sick except to seek medical care. If you have any symptoms at all and you must go in public, please wear a mask. It can take up to 48 hours of symptoms before you test positive on an antigen test.
Same day appointments are available for COVID testing at the Dent County Health Center. Financial assistance is available.
In addition, we now have a nurse practitioner, April Greener, who can consult with you following your test. We can administer monoclonal antibody treatments and recently received a shipment of Paxlovid as well. There is a small charge for the visit with the nurse practitioner or pharmacist, but there is no charge to you for the medication treatment.
