Adena CCO Encourages the Public: “Don’t Stop Now”

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In a Tuesday news release from Adena Health System, Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) Kirk Tucker, MD is encouraging the public to continue the efforts to practice the recommended guidelines to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As noted in the release, Dr. Tucker has been on the frontlines of the system’s Coronavirus efforts from Day One, helping to safely build and sustain a COVID-19 care delivery model across south central and southern Ohio. Four months after the region’s first cases, the numbers of people testing positive for COVID-19 is trending up both nationally and locally, and Dr. Tucker advises everyone to keep working to protect themselves and others in our communities. 

“This has been a very long haul,” Tucker said. “It is understandable that people are wearing down from the stress, fatigue and challenges this pandemic has caused in our daily lives. If there is anything I can stress to my patients and people in our communities, it is ‘don’t stop now.’ We need to continue to safely protect ourselves and those around us just as hard, and with the same commitment that we did four months ago.”   

With a close eye on federal, state and local health data, Tucker believes the current increase in positives cases may be the last. Following a 60-day course of events, trends on positive cases should begin to decline. 

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