Health Board discusses COVID-19, sanitarian position

The Hill County Health Board met Wednesday and discussed rising COVID-19 cases and some important openings at the Hill County Public Health Department.

Hill County Public Health Director Kim Berg was not able to be at Wednesday’s meeting nor was Board Chair Mark Peterson, so Vice Chair Erica McKeon-Hanson read an update on the pandemic from Berg.

McKeon-Hanson said, reading from Berg’s update, much like the rest of the state, Hill County is seeing an increase in cases of COVID-19 and most of these are being identified through people reporting the results of at-home tests, which the de...