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After many were left frustrated and confused when just 60 available vaccine appointments rapidly filled Tuesday, Feb. 9, Summit County commissioners are pushing for more transparency in the vaccine distribution process.
At a Summit County Board of Health meeting Thursday, Feb. 11, commissioners asked public health officials to provide more clarity and details when it comes to distribution. It took just eight minutes for appointments to fill Tuesday, causing many questions and concerns about vaccine availability from the public.
“I know we’re saying ’appointments are limited,’ but limited could be all sorts of definitions,” Commissioner Elisabeth Lawrence said. “I mean, 60? That’s such a small, low number. And I’m not blaming us, that’s just what we got allocated, but I think we need to be as transparent as possible ahead of time.”
Just eight minutes after opening Tuesday, Feb. 9, all of Summit County’s vaccine appointments were full, county spokesperson Nicole Valentine wrote in an email. With such high demand and a whole new group of people.
Among the two confirmed cases of variant strains of the COVID-19 virus in Summit County, one was connected to the strain first discovered in the United Kingdom and the other to strains discovered on the.
Summit County officials are cautioning people to avoid parties and gatherings on Super Bowl Sunday, which is Feb. 7. In a news release, Summit County Public Health Director Amy Wineland said the safest way for.
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Summit County reported 101 new cases of the novel coronavirus over the week, according to the county’s coronavirus webpage
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At a town hall Friday, Feb. 5, Public Health Director Amy Wineland said county officials identified two cases of the COVID-19 variant strain over the week, as well.
The county also reported 41 hospitalizations. However, the jump in hospitalization numbers has to do with “a computational anomaly from the private (Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment) database,” according to the webpage. The new total number of hospitalizations among residents since March 5 is 110.
On Friday, Gov. Jared Polis announced a new dial, which looks at data on a seven-day average as opposed to the 14-day average it was using. The new dial also changes the incidence rate requirements for each level. Level orange would include counties with seven-day incidence rates averaging 300-500 new cases per 100,000 peop