Melaney Arnold
Melaney Arnold
prepared sure
We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.
anyone department dosage health number physician public received second
The Department of Public Health is recommending that anyone who has only received one vaccination for mumps see a physician for the second dosage because of the number of mumps cases.
effected five percent population vaccine
The vaccine is only about 95 percent effective. Five percent of the population is not going to be effected by it.
coming local people saying sure tired
I'm sure that local communities probably get tired of people coming to them and saying this wasn't installed right.
continues increase sudden
The investigation continues into why the sudden increase of mumps this year.
gets losing serious
There is the possibility of losing your hearing. That's when it gets to a very serious level.
awareness checked doctor people
Awareness is up because it's been in the news. People are actually going to the doctor and getting it checked out.
additional basically changes department health hearing information looking march public status submitted violations
Basically they've submitted some additional information to the Department of Public Health that we are going to be looking at so there has been no changes to the allegations or to the violations yet. The status hearing is now set for March 10th.
appeals case couple process takes
Normally, the appeals process in a case like this takes a couple of months.
planned sure
We want to make sure that everything we have planned is in place. This is something we've been working on for a very long time.
cases factors looking
We're still looking into the determining factors of the outbreak. We used to only have 10 to 15 cases in one year.
closely exactly obviously
We're still obviously closely monitoring this. At this point, we still don't know exactly what's going on.
expect indication rate sure
We expect to see more cases. There is really no indication that the rate will drop. We're just not sure about how many or how soon.