Dean Edwards, the newly elected president of the Salida Hospital District board of directors, reviewed policy procedures with the board during their regular monthly meeting Tuesday.
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Family physician Katherine Fitting, 70, stands outside the South Park Health Care clinic on Feb. 24, 2021. She is the only general practice doctor in Park County, an area nearly the size of the state of Delaware.
Dr. Katherine Fitting was darting from room to room in the small South Park Health Care facility in Fairplay, giving out doses of the Moderna COVID-19 shot during a recent vaccination drive. This rural area, surrounded by mountain passes difficult to traverse, does not have the facilities to store the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at its requisite sub-zero temperatures.
One man Fitting treated didn’t want to give his name because he said his wife is suspicious of vaccines and didn’t want him getting the shot. Another woman in her late 60s was still immunocompromised after recently beating stage-three cancer. She said she was only getting the shot “because if I get (COVID) now, I’m dead.”