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Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center began COVID-19 vaccinations for frontline and health care workers Thursday afternoon following receipt of the 345 doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
The first two recipients of the vaccine in Chaffee County were Dr. Erika Gelgand, HRRMCâs lead physician for COVID-19, and Amanda Reiff, a registered nurse in the Family Birthing Center, who were vaccinated at about 12:45 p.m. Thursday by infection prevention and employee health manager and registered nurse Tracy McConathy.
Frontline and health care workers are included in the first phase of vaccinations as vaccines are rolled out from drug companies to medical facilities.
Posted by Jan Wondra | Dec 11, 2020
Journalists are not immune from the grief we cover. Sometimes we are carrying our own, personal sadness even as we do our best to represent the people and the communities we serve and the very real trauma we cover.
This has never been more true than it has this past year. We barely got over throwing every resource we had at covering the Decker Fire (a seven-day-a week, week-after-week task just as the firefighters and first responders experienced, for which we received three Colorado Press Association awards for excellence) when we began to move into training to cover what we expected would be (and has been) a brutal 2020 election where fact-based news media have been on the front lines of truth.
QUOTE TO NOTE
âOn the current trajectory, COVID-19 hospital and ICU demand may stay within surge capacity estimates over the next four weeks, even with modest increases in contacts over the Thanksgiving holiday. But further reductions in transmission control, associated with increases in contacts over the holidays could lead to hospital and ICU demand above surge capacity estimates.â
â Chaffee County Public and Environmental Health director Andrea Carlstrom
TESTING
Chaffee County Public Health hosts weekly free COVID-19 community testing clinics Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m.-noon at the Buena Vista Annex, 114 Linderman Ave.
Testing is by appointment only, scheduled by 4 p.m., the day before. Download and fill out consent form at chaffeecounty.org/Public-Health-Coronavirus.