Approximately 15% of people receiving the COVID-19 vaccines in Pitkin County are improperly filling out data collection records, which could later come back to haunt them, officials said Friday.
Some of the bad information appears to be mistakes like using a nickname instead of a real name but other entries are clearly intentionally wrong, like entering “why?” in the address portion of the form, said Carly Senst, the county’s vaccine and testing coordinator, and Gabe Muething, who oversees the vaccine clinics.
“What people need to understand is that this is a medical record,” said Muething, who also serves as director of the Aspen Ambulance District. “If you wouldn’t give your doctor bad information, don’t give us bad information. It’s all the same.”
on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
At Thursday afternoon’s Pitkin County Board of Health meeting, staff and officials had plenty to be hopeful for.
Thanks to two vaccine clinics last week, most of the county’s educators and essential workers are now fully vaccinated, as are seniors age 60 and older and people with two or more comorbidities, according to a vaccination update from Emergency Response and Epidemiology Administrator Carlyn Porter during the meeting.
Plus, the county is on track to begin administering vaccines to people in Phase 1B.4 on March 21, adding restaurant workers, people age 50 and older, and people with one or more comorbidity to the inoculation list; after that, it’s on to the general public.