Married U.S. Army Combat Medics Support Federal Vaccination Efforts in Pueblo, Colorado Photo By Spc. Jacob Moir | U.S. Army Soldiers Cpl. Maggie Van Wagenen, left, and Sgt. Frederick Van Wagenen,.. read moreread more Photo By Spc. Jacob Moir | U.S. Army Soldiers Cpl. Maggie Van Wagenen, left, and Sgt. Frederick Van Wagenen, right, combat medics assigned to 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division talk about deploying together to support the federal vaccination efforts at the Community Vaccination Center (CVC) at the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo, Colorado, April 24, 2021. The Van Wagenen’s are a married couple deployed from Fort Carson, Colorado. U.S. Northern Command, through U.S. Army North, remains committed to providing continued, flexible Department of Defense support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of the whole-of-government response
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Despite having the only federally supported vaccination site in all of FEMA Region 8, Pueblo County continues to struggle in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to rise throughout the county while the number of vaccines administered at the FEMA-run site at the Colorado State Fairgrounds fall well short of the site’s capacity to administer 3,000 vaccinations each day.
The county’s incidence rate, as of April 27, was about 317 cases per 100,000 county residents, according to Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment Director Randy Evetts, and the county’s one-week positivity rate was about 4.7%.
Turnout remains low at FEMA Mass Vaccination Clinic in Pueblo
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) Turnout at the Mass Vaccination Clinic at the Colorado State Fairgrounds remains low. On Sunday, only 138 people came out to get a dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine.
According to FEMA, the clinic has the capacity to vaccinate 3,000 people a day. Unfortunately, since the federal government took over operations at the clinic on April 14th, only 1,916 doses of the vaccine were administered on the clinic s busiest day.
A breakdown of vaccinations administered at the Colorado State Fairgrounds according to FEMA. Across the country, we ve seen reports of hesitancy to get vaccinated, but really what s driving that is hard to know at this point, said Julie Brooks with FEMA. What s going to happen after you get the vaccine are you going to get sick or are you going to miss work. We ve heard anecdotally a lot of that.
6 mass vaccination sites left with more than half of appointments unfilled
Tens of thousands of doses available at the mass vaccination sites around the state went unclaimed as Colorado works to persuade people to get vaccinated. Author: Marc Sallinger (9 News) Published: 8:00 PM MDT April 27, 2021 Updated: 8:22 PM MDT April 27, 2021
COLORADO, USA More than half of all appointments at Colorado s six mass vaccination sites around the state went unfilled in the last week.
Of the 88,397 appointments available at these sites in the past week, more than 48,000 went unfilled – that s 55% of all doses allocated to mass vaccination sites going unused at these locations, according to a data analysis by 9Wants to Know.
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