Coronavirus vaccine boosters roll out in El Paso County gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It’s no secret that registered nurses and other medical professionals are in high demand; medical personnel are on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19.
Colorado to pause distribution of Johnson & Johnson vaccine gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
After several people had adverse reactions to coronavirus shots, organizers shut down a Vaccines for All event in Commerce City.
The shutdown left more than 600 people who had scheduled appointments for the event to receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at Dick s Sporting Goods Park waiting, Centura Health said Wednesday.
The vaccination clinic sponsored by Centura Health and the state closed around 3:30 p.m. after more than 1,700 shots were administered. Officials said that 0.8%, or roughly 13 people, had an adverse reaction in the on-site observation site.
“Following the administration of the . vaccine and during onsite observation, we saw a limited number of adverse reactions to the vaccine,” Centura Health officials said in the statement.
The Answer
No. After talking to several different major hospital systems in the state, and an organization for visiting nurses, there is no evidence that travel nurses have been left out of the distribution. Each hospital said that travel nurses are not seen any different rules than other healthcare workers and they were also included in phases 1A and 1B in the Colorado distribution phases.
What we found
We talked to UCHealth, Centura Health, Denver Health, the Colorado Visiting Nurse Association and the state to see if this is true.
According to the state, healthcare workers, including traveling nurses, are eligible for vaccination in Phase 1A and 1B in Colorado.