Holding posters and waving to receptive drivers as they honked, upward of 100 people took part in a protest against Banner’s vaccine mandate Monday on the Beeline Highway.
At its May 4 meeting the Gila County Board of Supervisors gladly approved an amendment to its intergovernmental agreement with the Arizona Department of Health Services to increase the stateâs grant award by $300,762 for immunization services to enhance COVID-19 activities and vaccination efforts.
With this latest infusion of money to fight COVID-19, the Gila County Health and Emergency Management Department has received $5.4 million from the ADHS and Centers for Disease Control, said Michael OâDriscoll, director of the health department.
The funds must be used to provide vaccines, contact tracing and surveillance, he said.
OâDriscoll told the supervisors his department is having difficulty in finding people to fill the extra positions the grant awards have made possible. âWe are looking into seeing if we can contract out some of these jobs,â he said.