Thank you for being a #Tobacco21 advocate. We appreciated your support at the Douglas County Commission meeting! @KUCommHealth LMH Health American Heart Association Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence KU Medical Center

Look who received a flu shot today! CDC recommends getting vaccinated ASAP, ideally by the end of October. #Fightflu KDHE Charlie Bryan LMH Health

Our Director Dan Partridge's Lawrence Journal-World op-ed on health equity in Douglas County: "This is challenging work, and it is our community’s work. Creating the conditions for health for all is the only way to become 'healthier together.'" www2.ljworld.com/opinion/2019/m…

Environmental Health Specialist Tina Gustafson wrote this awesome piece about the wide-ranging environmental and health benefits of a workplace garden and recapping all the hard work so far from the Health Department's Garden Committee. #HealthForAll bit.ly/Garden-LDCHD

You won't want to miss the keynote speaker for Saturday's summit: Chris Maxwell, Communications Coordinator for American Association of Suicidology! You can register for the summit online: bit.ly/2m2hPTI or at the door. @HQCC_KS DCCCA Willow DV Center @ldchealth @bertnashcenter

Sandra J. Shaw Community Health Park was booming this past weekend during the Kids Fishing Derby! Here is a short video capturing the fun and excitement surrounding the lake on Saturday!

Lawrence USD 497 Quail Run threw a party during arrival today for Walk 2 School Day! Thank you to Little Q, Kansas Jayhawks cheerleaders, our PTO, and our parent volunteers Charlie Bryan for their efforts today with this fun event!

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Due to coronavirus concerns, KU is delaying the resumption of in-person classes following spring break. Starting Monday, March 23, all classes will be held online until further notice. Details at coronavirus.ku.edu.

People are staying home, and they have made great sacrifices to follow recent public health guidance to flatten the curve. We are grateful for this, and we ask the community to keep it up, because it’s working!

On Monday, City staff will begin the reconfiguration of Mass St for the recently approved plan to allow businesses additional space for retail and dining outdoors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The work will cause traffic alterations on Mass. More info: bit.ly/2YCl4ST

TREND: Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health is attributing a drop in new #COVID19 cases to an indoor mask mandate AND closing bars and nightclubs. You can see how moving avg. of new cases/day has dropped in the past couple weeks after those orders went into effect. KMBC

The survey is to collect community input from community members on solutions to reduce local poverty The results will be used to identify priorities for the Strategic Plan to Reduce Poverty, a component of the Douglas County Health Plan

The school board voted 4-3 to delay the start of the hybrid learning model at the elementary level until the end of the trimester, following reporting and recording of student progress and parent-teacher conferences.

Join National Academy of Medicine and APHA for a free webinar on 11/18 that will provide updates on #COVID19 vaccine development, approval, and allocation: covid19conversations.org #COVID19Conversations

If you're heading downtown to pick up a saliva test kit, please note that there's been a time change. We will be at 9th and Massachusetts from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

COVID-19 vaccination appointments are available Wednesday, April 7, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:20 p.m. for any Douglas County resident 16 and older. To make a vaccine appointment, enter the code 284987 at LDCHealth.org/GetMyVaccine. Appointment required. First come, first serve.

Registration for all Douglas County Mass Vaccination Clinics (first and second doses) is open to the public and registration codes are posted at ldchealth.org/COVIDVaccine and douglascountyks.org/coronavirus. For help registering, please call 785-864-9000.

Registration for all Douglas County Mass Vaccination Clinics (first and second doses) is open to the public and registration codes are posted at ldchealth.org/COVIDVaccine and douglascountyks.org/coronavirus. If you need help registering, please call 785-864-9000.

Thanks very much to DrC_Mama J_Johnson and LHSChestyLions for being wonderful vaccine clinic hosts today. The public clinic at LHS is open until 3. LDCHealth.org/COVIDVaccine