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Home My WebLink About033123 FW_ KPTZ Listener Questions for Monday April3_ 2023 BOCC Update ________________________________ From: Lynn Sorensen Sent: Friday, March 31, 2023 1:11:09 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Allison Berry; allison.berry@clallamcountywa.gov; Willie Bence; Greg Brotherton; Kate Dean; Heidi Eisenhour; jeffbocc; KPTZ VTeam Subject: KPTZ Listener Questions for Monday April3, 2023 BOCC Update ________________________________ ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. ________________________________ County Commissioners, Dr Allison Berry, and Willie Bence, Please see the KPTZ listener questions listed below for Monday, April 3, 2023 BOCC update. The listener who submitted question # 6 thought that Willie would be able to answer that question, and that Dr Berry might want to weigh in about environmental health concerns. Would you please reiterate to the listening public the frequency of the Health Updates at the BOCC meetings moving forward into the spring? Thank you, Lynn Sorensen KPTZ Virus Watch Team Questions for Dr Allison Berry: 1. In early March, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization in Canada has recommended a second bivalent booster for three categories of elderly and immune-compromised Canadians. Several provinces are providing these shots already. Why does a second bivalent booster reduce risks for elderly and immune-compromised Canadians but increase risks for elderly and immune-compromised Americans? 2. You have guided our 55+ Senior Cohousing Community all through the pandemic, Dr. Berry: You enabled us to know when it was safe to re-start shared meals in our Common House dining room & how to welcome non-community members to once again join us. We’ve done quite well relative to Covid infections amongst our Members, likely due all 40 of us being up-to-date & fully vaccinated. We are starting to hear that a second bivalent booster may be wise for individuals in the age group that most of us are in. As we’ve continued to listen to your reports to the County Commissioners, it has sounded like you have been comfortable expecting that Covid vaccination will likely go the route of the annual flu shot. And yet in addition to news reports, a local pharmacy has contacted us about scheduling a second bivalent clinic on our premises this Spring. Some of our Members have immune-compromised circumstances like diabetes & chemotherapy for cancer. In addition, most of those individuals are in their eighties or will be soon. Please advise if you think these individuals or perhaps all Members of the community should receive a second bivalent booster this Spring. 3. Is it considered safe now to attend church, go to bars, theatres, and book clubs, et cetera, without a mask? 4. The words “safe” and “effective” are thrown around a lot these days. I know that there have previously been questions on this show about other treatments such as Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge proponent of the covid vaccines and do believe in their being safe and effective—in fact, when I was able to convince 9 out of the 12 openly vaccine hesitant people living in my neighborhood to get vaccinated. But I have also done some digging into alternative treatments and really have to say that I’m not seeing where Hydroxychloroquine and Invermectin are failing. They are certainly not as good as the vaccines, but it sure seems like they’re more effective than drugs like Remdesivir. I guess I’m confused with the repeated hits on HCQ and Ivermectin. There are certainly studies that show their effectiveness in fighting covid 19, and by virtue of how long they have been around they have a greatly more extensive safety profile than the covid vaccines. So again, I don’t see the problem. Is the problem that they are not safe and effective and that they are in fact dangerous, or is that they are not as safe and effective as the covid vaccines? Is Remdesivir safe and effective? What are these things safe and effective in comparison too? What’s the baseline? I’ve just been thinking about this for some time now, hopefully you can help unpack this for me. And I think it bears repeating—I am pro-vax! (Question #5, is as written, but I am confused as to what the listener is actually asking. Maybe you can tease it out. Thanks, Lynn) 5. I am trying to find the studies that gives the number needed to vaccinate to prevent a case or death for the bivalent covid vaccines and the original covid vaccines but I’m a member of the hopeless internet illiterati. Can you share those studies on the social media and also please share the numbers on the KPTZ program? Layman explanations are great. Pretend that you’re explaining it to someone who double masks alone in their car. No offense to those people, but come on. Really? There’s no benefit in doing that. Question for Willie Bence: 6. My elderly mother is preparing to move into an ADU that we constructed on my property in about a month. Because she is so concerned with safety, she wanted to hook up a carbon monoxide detector. We also got a carbon dioxide sensor at the same time. We think the carbon monoxide alarm is good but the carbon dioxide sensor is confusing. We did some researching and came up with a few conflicting results. Our sensor says CO2 is at 10000 ppm, which seems like it’s really high. None of us are noticing any difficulty breathing in there or anything like that and so we think that it must be a problem with the sensor. We’re in the process of exchanging for a different sensor, but all this hubbub gave my mom the great idea to send in a question about safe carbon dioxide levels in general. She wants to know (and I am typing the email because she doesn’t ‘do’ email and doesn’t want to learn) what the highest safe level of carbon dioxide is for living in 24/7 and also for shorter periods of time, like 8 hours or 15 minutes. (She plans on taking her CO2 sensor with her everywhere because she loves numbers.) This is perhaps an unusual question, but please do indulge us. 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