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Dr. Lacey Cavanaugh, regional medical director for the Southwest Office of Public Health, was recently acknowledged by the Louisiana National Guard with its Distinguished Civilian Service Award for her work in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. LANG, Pafford and OPH staff collectively carried out 65,000 COVID-19 exams and administered fifty five,000 vaccines in Region 6’s eight parishes including Rapides, Vernon, Winn, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, Avoyelles and LaSalle. FDA authorizes a second booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for individuals 50 and older or individuals 12 and older with reasonable or severe immunosuppression. Vaccines are now obtainable for ages 5-17, and that’s our largest alternative to stop the spread of COVID-19, stop Delta and Omicron variants of their tracks, and guarantee secure, in-person learning for Louisiana’s kids. These example sentences are chosen routinely from various online information sources to reflect current utilization of the word ‘health.’ Views …