What's the Diff?
There are two kinds of subdivisions under Kittitas County. One is an office, which is led by an elected official. The Sheriff's Office for example. The other is run by the county. Kittitas County Public Health for example.
What is a department?
Kittitas County is geographically large. The county begins at the top of Snoqulamie Summit and goes all the way to Vantage and stops at this river.
What is the Columbia River?
Spreading droplets from person to person.
How COVID-19 is transmitted?
These public health system folks educate youth in our county.
What are the schools?
How much someone can hold or someone can manage.
What is capacity?
There are two kinds of health jurisdictions in Washington State. One is run by a county and is a department like Kittitas County. The other is is run as a stand alone entity.
What is a health district?
The most recent estimate is 48,140 according to the Office of Financial Management (OFM).
What is the population?
An example would be talking to someone, unmasked, for 20 minutes.
What is a close contact?
These guys get voted for and then they make decisions about local laws that a lot of time involve the health of our county.
What are elected officials?
Take advantage of or use.
What is leverage?
When you get a flu shot, sometimes people interchange terminology. When you get a shot you are getting a vaccine, but sometimes people use the term that refers to the process of becoming protected from a disease instead.
What is immunization?
There is only one city in Kittitas County that would be considered an "urban cluster."
What is Ellensburg?
Pregnant, 65 or older, and immune-compromised.
What is high risk for COVID-19?
These agencies enforce laws that are in place to protect health.
What is law enforcement?
IT uses it for signal transmissions. In the business world, it talks about how much someone or an agency can handle or not handle.
What is bandwidth?
An increase in disease has several terms used to refer to the geographic area that is affected. An epidemic is a sudden increase in one area. There is a different term for when the disease spreads across several countries.
What is a pandemic?
This is by far the largest employer in Kittitas County.
What is Central Washington University?
A person who has tested positive for 2019 novel coronavirus.
What is a confirmed case?
How a city is laid out absolutely affects health and these guys make the decisions about what a city looks like.
What are city planners?
To change a situation so that the change is noticeable.
What is move the needle?
Even how diseases spread have a different terminology and people interchange those (often incorrectly). Seriously. There is a big difference between infectious and communicable disease in health terminology. Only one term refers to disease that spreads from person to person.
What is communicable?
According to the most recent Community Health Assessment in Kittitas County, the average life expectancy for an individual born in Kittitas is this umber and higher than that state and national average.
What is 82 years?
Rate per 100K of newly diagnosed cases, average testing rate, percent of positive tests, percent of occupied hospital beds occupied, percent of hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients.
What are the Washington State Key Metrics?
Not everyone drives, so how do people get around? Don't forget that access for the public to attend health appointments, meetings, and engage in their community is also part of the public health system.
What is transit?
Choose the simplest option or way to complete a task.
What is pick the low hanging fruit?