El Condado de Garfield sigue con el plan de vacunas de COVID que están basado de los hospitales postindependent.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from postindependent.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jane Dinsmoor, center left, and Bill Dinsmoor receive their first round of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine from Nurses Erica Purcell, left, and Tiffany Poss, right, during the first day of the drive through vaccinations for those 70 and older in the Benedict Music Tent parking lot in Aspen on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. The vaccinations are for those with an appointment only. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Garfield County Public Health does not have immediate plans to run an off-site community drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinic like the one now operating in Pitkin County.
Instead, it continues to rely on the county’s two hospitals, Valley View in Glenwood Springs and Grand River in Rifle, to administer vaccines to the first rounds of eligible residents within the hospital setting only.
Jane Dinsmoor, center left, and Bill Dinsmoor receive their first round of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 14 from nurses Erica Purcell, left, and Tiffany Poss, right, during the drive-through vaccinations for residents 70 and older. Officials distributed more than 1,100 vaccines over two days at the Benedict Music Tent parking lot in Aspen. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Last week’s first large-scale vaccine clinic in Aspen, which inoculated 1,150 people in a matter of two days, has been heralded as one of the most successful and unprecedented local COVID-19 operations to date.
Led by Pitkin County’s incident management team, and with the cooperation of many agencies including the city of Aspen, Aspen Valley Hospital, the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority, the Music Associates of Aspen, as well as volunteers, the clinic was set up within days of receiving notification by the state that vaccines were being sent here.