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Dr. Ralph Battels, chief of staff at Pagosa Springs Medical Center, receives the county’s first COVID-19 vaccine while fellow physician Dr. Michelle Flemmings claps. Flemmings received the next vaccine dose.
By Randi Pierce
Staff Writer
The first doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Colorado Monday, with some of those doses then making their way to Pagosa Springs Medical Center (PSMC) Wednesday.
Early Wednesday afternoon, PSMC Chief of Staff Dr. Ralph Battels and fellow Emergency Room physician Dr. Michelle Flemmings became the first in Archuleta County to receive a dose of the vaccine.
Both noted their excitement and anticipation before receiving the vaccine, likening it to Christmas, and reported no pain from the shot.