The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Colorado Joint Vaccine Task Force recently paused the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
The interruption was due to reports of blood clots and low platelets in six Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients in the United States. The exact cause of the condition and whether it is related to the vaccine is unknown.
Almost 7 million people have received the one-dose vaccine in the United States so far.
Chaffee County Public Health Director Andrea Carlstrom said, âCCPH and all county COVID-19 providers will follow the stateâs requirement that we pause vaccination plans for distributing J&J until further notice.
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After 25 years in the emergency department at Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center, Dr. Bruce Gross has hung up his emergency room stethoscope and retired.
Gross spent his first three years as a doctor as a general practitioner in Payson, Arizona. From there he moved to Goodland, Kansas where he was in general practice for seven years.
He transferred to emergency work in Carlsbad, New Mexico for four years before making the move to Salida.
Gross started his emergency room work in Salida at the old hospital, now the Touber building, where he said the emergency department consisted of one room with three beds and a nurseâs desk, curtains dividing the space between the beds.