May 27-30: Grace D
This was my first week at the Weld County health department. Weld County doesn’t start doing its mosquito trapping and testing until June. So instead most of what I did this week was familiarize myself with the data logging system for mosquitoes that have been tested. Weld county is one of the largest counties in Colorado (4,017 mi²). To cover everything Weld county is divided into three zones that contain the largest populations. Resources are finite therefore in order to protect the most people it makes sense to catch and test in the highest population zones, but it does mean that we have to limit testing in the more rural areas of Weld Country. While I understand that this is how we protect the largest proportion of people it's also hard to swallow. Hopefully in the future there will be some opportunity to monitor these more rural communities.
Below is a link to the Weld County WNV page that has a map of what areas are monitored. Sorry I couldn't uplaod the photo here.
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