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Don’t get complacent!

While many of us celebrate the positive trend of declining COVID-19 cases after a record-breaking summer surge, the public health officials I interviewed this week are clearly still worried it could happen again. That’s because our vaccination rates remain low, and they’re concerned people will get complacent now that our local outbreak is improving. Hear what they have to say about how the pandemic is far from over and their words of caution with the holidays on the horizon in one of this week’s stories.

Stay safe,

– Elizabeth Fite, health care reporter, efite@timesfreepress.com