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Teton County s Health Departmentâs COVID-19 vaccine clinic is updating its hours and moving back to the Health Departmentâs building, located at 460 E. Pearl Ave.
The clinic had been at the new Target/old Kmart building since the end of March. Prior to that, the clinic was hosted in the Presbyterian Church and in the Senior Center. These locations allowed us to exponentially increase the number of community members we were able to vaccinate each day,  Teton County Health Departmentâs Nurse Manager, Janet Garland, stated in a press release. The donation of these spaces is one of the reasons why we have such a large percentage of our population fully vaccinated at this time.â
One-third of Wyoming adults say they are hesitant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine, the highest rate in the country.
Thatâs according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which has been polling households through its Pulse survey. In its most recent round of surveys, the Census found that 16.7% of adults said they would âdefinitely notâ get a vaccine and 16.5% would âprobably notâ receive one.
If the 33.2% overall level of hesitancy holds true, it could hamper the stateâs drive to reach herd immunity from COVID-19, which has been estimated to be between 70% and 80% protection across the population.
Roughly two in five Teton County residents are fully vaccinated.
Thatâs almost double the statewide rate, according to Wyoming Department of Health data. Despite the rosy numbers, however, any threshold of community protection isnât worth much if itâs only at the county level.
âUntil the whole state and the people that are traveling here are fully vaccinated, you personally might be safer, but that doesnât mean that we can get this pandemic behind us,â county Director of Health Jodie Pond said.
Still, the numbers are an encouraging sign that the county is charging forward in its vaccination campaign. The Wyoming Health Department now publishes county-level immunization estimates, and Teton County has a much higher rate than any other in Wyoming at 39.72% as of Tuesday afternoon, though that data may lag by up to 72 hours.
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