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Despite having the only federally supported vaccination site in all of FEMA Region 8, Pueblo County continues to struggle in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to rise throughout the county while the number of vaccines administered at the FEMA-run site at the Colorado State Fairgrounds fall well short of the site’s capacity to administer 3,000 vaccinations each day.
The county’s incidence rate, as of April 27, was about 317 cases per 100,000 county residents, according to Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment Director Randy Evetts, and the county’s one-week positivity rate was about 4.7%.