Gallatin County prepares for Phase 1B of vaccine distribution, changes to prioritization
Adjustments being made to vaccination plan
and last updated 2021-01-10 17:21:33-05
BOZEMAN, MT â Phase 1A of vaccine distribution continued in Gallatin County last week. Frontline healthcare workers and others eligible for the vaccine received their first doses over three days.
But with a changing administration, the next phase is seeing a change in prioritizing the vaccine.
Friday morning marked another day at the Gallatin County Fairgroundâs Vaccination Center for those to come to a POD, or âPoint of Distribution,â to receive their Phase 1-A COVID-19 vaccination.
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Editor s Note
This story was compiled almost completely from the reporting of Lee Montana newspapersâ staff over the past nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It started the way most Montana storms do, signs of trouble coming on the west wind.
On Leap Day, Saturday, Feb. 29, Washington state reported the countryâs first COVID-19 death, the first healthcare worker infected, and the first known outbreak in a care facility.
By early March, a few Montanans began to worry. Many others paid scant attention to the gathering storm.
Indeed, some battle lines were already being drawn.
Four Western Montana Republican legislators attended the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where a New Jersey doctor who had paid big money to attend VIP events, snapping selfies with big-name attendees including Ted Cruz, tested positive for the virus.
Gallatin County received more doses of the coronavirus vaccines this week, enabling the continued immunization of frontline health care workers in accordance with state and federal guidelines.