Michele Bever, South Heartland District Health Department (SHDHD) executive director, reported new recommendations for bivalent vaccines and continued moderate COVID virus levels in local wastewater.

The most recent wastewater surveillance report for Hastings samples collected on April 11 showed that levels of the virus that causes COVID-19 had decreased over the previous 15 days, but remained at moderate levels. Bever also reported two long-term care facilities with COVID-19 outbreaks in the past two weeks, as well as two patients in South Heartland hospitals because of COVID-19 last Tu...