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Thousands gathered for a three-day country music festival in western Colorado in late June. Cases of the delta variant of the coronavirus are spreading quickly in the area, but the public health department said that, by the time the risk had become clear, it was too late to cancel Country Jam. (Rae Ellen Bichell/KHN)
Rae Ellen Bichell/KHN
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment sent a mobile covid vaccine lab to Country Jam in Mesa County. In the three days of the music festival, only six people of the thousands in attendance were vaccinated on the bus.