For KHN Walden, Colorado, has no hospital and no pharmacy, only a small clinic. The clinic stocks basic medications to handle routine acute needs, but residents also band together to help one another pick up prescriptions when they head out on the hourlong drive over mountain passes to Laramie, Wyoming, or Granby or Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
The building that once housed the last drugstore in this town of fewer than 600 is now a barbecue restaurant, where pit boss Larry Holtman dishes out smoked brisket and pulled pork across the same counter where pharmacists dispensed vital medications more than 30 years ago.
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COVID-19 Vaccinations are administered at the Mountain View Medical Park building in Laramie, Wyoming on Jan. 15, 2021.
UW Associate professor Brant Schumaker gets the COVID-19 vaccine from Albany County Public Health Nurse Claire Naylor at the Mountain View Medical Park building in Laramie, Wyoming on Jan. 15, 2021.
The early administered vaccines were given by UW staff and Albany County Public Health.
Initial administration of COVID-19 vaccine to individuals in high-risk job categories in Albany County and at the University of Wyoming is nearing completion, and the next stage is scheduled to begin this week.
Starting today, Jan. 25, Albany County Public Health, UW and Ivinson Memorial Hospital (IMH) were scheduled to begin administering vaccines to county residents who are in categories 1-3 of the Phase 1b priority schedule in the Wyoming Department of Health’s distribution guidelines. This includes people who are 70 years of age or older; however, due to limited vaccine av