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CHEYENNE â About two weeks into the COVID-19 vaccineâs distribution in Wyoming, the focus is still on frontline medical workers, some first responders and people living in long-term care facilities â in other words, those most vulnerable to the virus.
But the process is rolling along, with 75-80% of people in the 1A priority group having so far been offered the vaccine, said Kathy Emmons, executive director of the Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department. Emmons said about 60% of those eligible have chosen to receive the vaccine so far, similar to what is being seen nationally.
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center President and CEO Tim Thornell said the rate is similar for hospital staff. Those electing not to immediately receive the vaccine arenât saying no to it, Thornell said â they just donât want to be among the first. Ultimately, he hopes âupwards of 80%â of staff will opt in.
The more transmissible variant of COVID-19 originally found in the United Kingdom has not yet been detected in samples tested by the Wyoming Department of Health.
Thatâs according to Kim Deti, a spokeswoman for the department. She told the News&Guide on Tuesday that the Department can test for the variant.
âThe Wyoming Public Health Laboratory, which is part of the Wyoming Department of Health, is capable of screening for that variant with whatâs called whole genome sequencing,â Deti wrote in an email, adding: âIf someone had the variant it wouldnât cause a problem with our testing to see whether they were positive for COVID-19.â
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Opelika: At East Alabama Medical Center, located about 60 miles northeast of Montgomery, nurses and doctors who have spent months caring for the ill, are doing what they can to get through the holiday season, which many fear will only spread the disease and add to the U.S. death toll that has surpassed 300,000. That means staff members can hang decorations on patients’ doors in the ICU but cannot attend after-work Christmas parties. A cheerful Santa doll stands atop the desk at a nursing station, but big gatherings with relatives are out. A nurse for five years, Nurse Carla Fallin said Christmas just doesn’t feel right this year. She and her husband did not take their two young sons to local Christmas events that drew hundreds of people, many without masks. The decorations in the ICU help lighten the mental load a lit
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