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What did they all have in common? They were all waiting the required 15 minutes Tuesday after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in the Jackson Hole Middle School gym. The kids were part of the newest cohort of people eligible for vaccination after the federal government approved the Pfizer immunization for use in children as young as 12. “I’m just a little nervous,” seventh-grader Ryan Glick said. “Mostly because I don’t know how I’m going to feel.” Ryan didn’...

Roughly two in five Teton County residents are fully vaccinated. That’s almost double the statewide rate, according to Wyoming Department of Health data. Despite the rosy numbers, however, any threshold of community protection isn’t worth much if it’s only at the county level. “Until the whole state and the people that are traveling here are fully vaccinated, you personally might be safer, but that doesn’t mean that we can get this pandemic behind us,” county Direc...