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Matthews-Vu Medical Group plans Saturday COVID-19 vaccine clinic
THE STAFF AT MATTHEW -VU MEDICAL GROUP ARE HOLDING A PUBLIC COVID VACCINE CLINIC THIS SATURDAY.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado â The staff at Matthew-Vu Medical Group in Colorado Springs will hold a public COVID vaccine clinic on Saturday, January 23. The doctor s office is one of six local health care providers who ve partnered with El Paso County Public Health to administer the vaccines.
Volunteers from the El Paso County Medical Reserve Corps have helped the staff here to give shots to patients who qualify under the state s priority listing as either Group 1A or 1B.
Hours expanded at 4 El Paso County COVID-19 testing sites
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) The El Paso County Health Department announced the expansion of COVID-19 test site hours. Now all four community sites will be open seven days week.
Almost 500,000 tests have been done in our county since the start of the pandemic, but compared to some regions in our state, our testing rates don’t measure up.
As of now, El Paso County’s testing rate is just over 60,000 tests per 100,000 people.
According to the Colorado Department of Public Health’s website, this doesn’t even place us in the top 19 for testing rates in the state. Officials with the El Paso County health department said though that statistic doesn’t alarm them, the county could be more competitive.