Mesa County has come together in more ways than one to get through the past year.
âIt takes numbers and numbers of volunteers to pull this off and weâve got people lined up,â a thankful Jeff Kuhr, Mesa County Public Health executive director, said at last weekâs COVID-19 news conference where he opened the countyâs large scale vaccination clinic. âI want to thank the volunteers who will be helping us in the months ahead.â
Two of those volunteers helping out include Bethany Hoffman and her husband, David.
Hoffman worked as a nurse in the valley for many years before retiring about eight years ago. Now sheâs returned to the field to help administer vaccines.
Long-term care facilities are receiving some of the earliest doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as health officials look to inoculate the groups hardest hit from the coronavirus pandemic and the
Boebert is either unethical or obstuse
In the interest of full disclosure, I was never comfortable with Lauren Boebert as our representative in Washington. I believed Ms. Boebert was simply in over her head. You canât just yell âfreedomâ and carry a Glock to be an effective legislator and I didnât think she had the ideas or the experience to do more than that.
However, she was duly elected and I respected the results of what I believed was a fair process. (I am amazed that people think if âliberalsâ had somehow rigged things, Ms. Boebert would have been elected.) I was prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt and tried to remain objective about her actions.
Thousands of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered already in Mesa County, and local health officials are ready to handle the thousands of more residents looking to be inoculated.
As the countyâs vaccine distribution plan moves from the highest prioritized individuals on down the list, Mesa County Public Health and its community partners have been pleased with how smoothly the operation has run so far.
With more than 6,800 doses received and more than 3,400 doses given, according to numbers last updated Monday, the county is 8% of the way through the first phase of distribution.
Among those getting the vaccine in Phase 1 are highest-risk health care workers, long-term care facility staff and residents, emergency services, first responders, people 70 and older and other health care staff.