Friday, December 11, 2020
By DANA LARSEN / Pilot-Tribune Editor
Public health officials are beginning to get word from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Operation Warp Speed about arrival of long-awaited coronavirus vaccine - which will far fall short of need.
Buena Vista County Public Health was told this week that its first allocation after the vaccine is approved will be 500 doses.
That isnt even enough to fully serve the first group in line to receive vaccine - front line health care workers. There are about 775 of those people in the county, according to BV Public Health Director Pam Bogue. A whole lot of them are nurses, but this also includes people such as dentists and mental health counselors.