Most Americans have waited months to finally get their vaccine. Maybe you finally got an appointment this weekend, only for Mother Nature to be like: Haha! No.
How the Vaccine Impacts COVID-19 Variants
For many, the COVID-19 vaccine serves as the light at the end of the tunnel in this pandemic. For others, it may seem like a daunting addition to already challenging times especially as new variants of the virus begin to emerge.
In January, Gov. Jared Polis announced that B.1.1.7, a new variant of COVID-19, was found in Colorado. Thankfully, doctors have confidence that the vaccine will be able to tackle these unfamiliar strains. What we can see from the underlying science of developing the vaccine in the first place is that it kills not only SARS-CoV-2, but it appears to also kill these minor variations around it, said Dr. Ken Thorpe, Ph.D., Chairman of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) and Chair of the Department of Health Policy & Management in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, in our Tuned In to NoCo interview. But I think the variants are an important reminder to everybody out there that we
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UCHealth is hosting a blood drive to help a critically ill Windsor father who is currently fighting a rare medical condition brought on by COVID-19.
According to a press release from UCHealth, Nate Washam, 42, first contracted COVID-19 in January. A few weeks later, the virus caused him to develop hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a life-threatening condition that impacts the immune system.
Since then, Washam has been in critical condition at the UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, where he s relying on blood transfusions from generous donors at the UCHealth Garth Englund Blood Centers.
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