McCook Humane Society

100 South Street

345-2372

Hours: M-F: 2-5

Sat: 12-4

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SWNPHD HAS PEDIATRIC DOSES OF PFIZER Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department (SWNPHD) has pediatric doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine now available. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Pfizer pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in ages 5 to 11 at the end of October, and now the official guidelines and recommendations have been given by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The vaccine was studied in 3,100 children and showed the pediatric vaccine is 90.7% effective. Side effects are usually mild and may include soreness, headache, fatigue, or low-grade fever, which are like the adult dose. These are temporary and show that the body is building immunity, which is better for children than the possible long-term effects of getting COVID-19 infection. COVID-19 cases in children can result in hospi-talizations, MIS-C (inflammatory syndromes) and long-term complications in which symptoms can linger for months. The pediatric dose is smaller than the adult dose and comes separately. Providers who will be giving the vaccine to ages 5 to 11 include SWNPHD, Mark’s Pharmacy in Cambridge, Adam’s Drug in Imperial, and Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman. SWNPHD had 148 new cases of COVID-19 reported from November 2 to November 8, 2021, bring-ing the weekly average to 116 cases per week in the last 30 days.

DHHS 2021-2022 BUSINESS PLAN Governor Pete Ricketts and Nebraska Department of Health and Human Ser-vices (DHHS) CEO Dannette R. Smith unveiled the DHHS 2021-2022 business plan. The plan consists of 17 priority initiatives that will guide DHHS in its mission to Help People Live Better Lives. During their remarks, the Governor and CEO Smith highlighted the accomplishments of DHHS to help Nebraskans stay healthy during the pandemic. DHHS assisted with the Test Nebraska initiative, which delivered over 785,000 test results and allowed Nebraska to double its COVID testing during the critical early months of the pan-demic. The agency trained 1,000 State teammates to support local health departments in their contact tracing work. DHHS also helped rapidly adminis-ter the coronavirus vaccine, which has been especially important to protect older Nebraskans. Over 89% of Nebraskans age 65 or older have now been fully vaccinated. Additionally, the Governor complimented DHHS for finding innovative ways to carry out its day-to-day business during the pandemic.

BEEF PRICES U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer and a bipartisan group of other senators have come together on a plan intended to address the growing disparity between the price that ranchers are paid for their cattle and what consumers pay for beef. The Nebraska Republican and the other lawmakers, including Chuck Grassley of Iowa, said Tuesday that their compromise measure would require beef packers to acquire more of their cattle through negotiated cash markets and also promote more transparency in the nation’s cattle markets. Fischer said it’s important that everyone along the beef supply chain cow-calf producers, feeders, packers and consumers be treated fairly. That starts with robust cash sales for cattle, she said. “We are looking for ways that everyone can profit, and for consumers to be able to benefit from getting good beef,” Fischer said in an interview. “I’m hearing from people all over the country, not just Ne-braska, on the importance of getting this done.” While consumers are paying record prices for beef and packers are often making record profits farmers and ranchers have endured years of declining prices for their cattle. Many producers blame the market conditions on the extreme consolidation in the nation’s meatpacking industry. Today, 85% of fattened cattle are slaugh-tered by just four big packers. And those packers are obtaining the vast ma-jority of their cattle not by cash negotiation in live cattle auctions but through marketing agreements with individual producers.

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McCook Community College sophomore Jordan Jerome signed a national letter of

intent Tuesday to continue her volleyball career next year at Augusta University

in Georgia, an NCAA division II program. The 5-10 outside hitter from Rawlins

Wyoming, heads to Georgia, one week after her younger sister Jessie signed a

letter of intent to come to McCook next season as a setter. MCC Coach Hayley

Kobza said she became aware of the Jerome girls several summers ago when

their dad Joshua whose parents live in McCook was visiting. “He reached out

wanting to get the girls in the gym over the summer he’s a super-dad for his

daughters so they came and we talked and as it turns out it was meant to be,”

Kobza said. As a freshman in the spring, Jerome was named to the all-Region IX

South team. As an outside hitter, she appeared in 29 matches with 175 kills, 210

digs, 25 service aces and led MCC with 58 total blocks. This fall Jerome played in

38 matches with 386 kills, 402 digs, 35 service aces and 56 total blocks. She was

again named to the all-Region IX South team. For her career she compiled 561

kills, 612 digs, 60 aces, 108 assist blocks, and six solo blocks.

The McCook Community College women shook off a scrappy Cloud County Com-

munity College basketball team in the second half Tuesday night to post a 71-62

win at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. MCC picked it up on sides,

shooting 50 percent in the second half and shutting down the T-Birds offensively

to 32.4 percent in the final 20 minutes of the game. “I thought we played better

defense in the second half. The first half was solid but they pressed us in the

half court to make things tough,” said MCC Coach Brandon Pritchett. “This team

continues to get better shooting the ball, and that’s good to see.” After shooting

40.9 percent in the first half and 33 percent on 3-point shots, MCC turned it

around making 15 of 30 second-half shots and five of 13 3-pointers (38.5 per-

cent) to finish the game at 46.2 percent. Sophomore Valentina Monzo (Santiago,

Chile) scored a season high 18 points, making three of four 3-pointers and

grabbing seven rebounds. MCC will host the Cobblestone Hotel & Suites Classic

Friday and Saturday in a women’s tournament. North Platte will play Colby in the

opening game Friday at 5:30 p.m. with MCC taking on Air Force Prep following

that game at about 7:30 p.m. On Saturday North Platte will play Air Force Prep at

1 p.m. with MCC meeting Colby following that game at approximately 3 p.m.

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