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Rick Breuer is the CEO of Community Memorial Hospital in Cloquet and wrote this for the Pine Knot News. This is a hard time for all of us. Last spring, many of us prepared for what we thought would be massive numbers of Covid patients. That never came to pass, and we have all begun to enjoy some of the “normal” activities of life as we used to know it. But we can see that we will be dealing with this virus for some time, and it can be difficult for us personally and professionally to keep up our spirits and not let our guard down. The pre...
From a health care perspective, a mask ordinance is a good idea. Multiple studies have shown that wearing masks helps reduce transmission of Covid-19. There are many tools in our toolbelt to help us combat this virus. Examples of these tools are contact tracing, physical distancing, testing, and wearing masks. A vaccine will ultimately change everything in a big way, but that is still over the horizon. Contact tracing has proved challenging in this case. The fact that so many of us are asymptomatic for so long while we are contagious makes it...
