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Summit County Health Director Rich Bullough says he’s excited this week to be taking some of the first official steps to have Covid vaccine delivered here.
Bullough says there’s a light at the end of the tunnel but it’s still a fairly long tunnel.
Bullough told KPCW that on Tuesday, he signed the first order requesting a vaccine delivery. He outlined the plans for how the doses will be available in Summit County.
“We’re having real consistent and frequent meetings. We’re talking right now about potentially three drive-thru facilities one in Kamas, one in Coalville, one in Park City, and then probably a walk-through facility, perhaps in the heart of town. We’re still trying to refine those specific protocols and sites.”
The first signs of a post-Thanksgiving surge of COVID-19 cases started to appear six days after the holiday, Summit County Health Director Rich Bullough said, a grim development that officials hope is not indicative of a winterlong trend.
“We are where we expected to be,” Bullough said in an interview Tuesday morning. “Went into Thanksgiving with numbers higher than we wanted to be, and we’re seeing the surge we expected.”
He told the Board of Health on Monday that the case rate is rising quickly among older populations. He said that it appeared that intergenerational gatherings contributed to that trend, though his teams hadn’t had time to analyze the data.
Local leaders from both the public and private sectors shared details about adjusting to COVID-19 in settings ranging from ski lifts to schools during a virtual community conversation Monday