Hood River County Commissioners made are pushing to hire a COVID Response Coordinator to deal with many of the management and communication challenges of the pandemic.  County Commission Chair Mike Oates says the issues they have to deal with from the pandemic will be around for awhile.  Oates says duties could include managing economic information to businesses and distributing health information to the public, helping the health department with process and developing testing strategies, and allow other County staff to be able to focus on their other duties.  Administrator Jeff Hecksel was given the go-ahead to formulate the position and determine where funding for it will come from.