Amy Behrhorst, physicians assistant in employee health at Aspen Valley Hospital, talks with a person before administering the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine in Aspen on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Pitkin County will demobilize the weekly mass vaccination clinics its been holding in another month in favor of smaller, more accessible sites, an official said Thursday.
The last mass vaccination clinic will be held May 14, said Carly Senst, the county’s vaccination coordinator. In addition, at the end of April, the county will move the remaining clinics from the Benedict Music Tent parking lot to the Buttermilk Ski Area parking lot, she said.
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In an outdoor-activity-centered community like the Roaring Fork Valley, sports-related and other minor injuries go hand-in-hand with the mountain terrain. But unlike a major urban center, the options for getting fast help after a mountain bike twist or the onset of other common illnesses and injuries are a little more limited – minus making what might be a costlier and time-consuming trip to the ER in Aspen.
Approximately 15% of people receiving the COVID-19 vaccines in Pitkin County are improperly filling out data collection records, which could later come back to haunt them, officials said Friday.
Some of the bad information appears to be mistakes like using a nickname instead of a real name but other entries are clearly intentionally wrong, like entering “why?” in the address portion of the form, said Carly Senst, the county’s vaccine and testing coordinator, and Gabe Muething, who oversees the vaccine clinics.
“What people need to understand is that this is a medical record,” said Muething, who also serves as director of the Aspen Ambulance District. “If you wouldn’t give your doctor bad information, don’t give us bad information. It’s all the same.”
A parking lot near the Benedict Music Tent sits empty Tuesday after a separate tent used as a vaccine drive-thru clinic collapsed due to winter weather. A round of second vaccinations is scheduled at the lot for Thursday. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Cases of COVID-19 are again inching up in Pitkin County, possibly because of spring break crowds and loosening of restrictions, an official said Tuesday.
In order to remain under the Yellow restrictions, the county cannot have more than 90 cases in a seven-day period. On Monday, that seven-day rate was 100 which qualifies the county for Orange-level restrictions though it dropped back down again to 90 on Tuesday, according to local epidemiology data
on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
At Thursday afternoon’s Pitkin County Board of Health meeting, staff and officials had plenty to be hopeful for.
Thanks to two vaccine clinics last week, most of the county’s educators and essential workers are now fully vaccinated, as are seniors age 60 and older and people with two or more comorbidities, according to a vaccination update from Emergency Response and Epidemiology Administrator Carlyn Porter during the meeting.
Plus, the county is on track to begin administering vaccines to people in Phase 1B.4 on March 21, adding restaurant workers, people age 50 and older, and people with one or more comorbidity to the inoculation list; after that, it’s on to the general public.