Those announcements came this week from the Teton County Health Department and the Wyoming Department of Health.
One state order relates to mask and social distancing requirements at educational institutions. The other limits indoor events of more than 500 people to 50% of venue capacity.
Teton Countyâs mask order applies to customers and employees of businesses. Teton District Health Officer Dr. Travis Riddell told the Jackson Hole Daily he felt the order should stay in effect because COVID-19 is still active, variants are being transmitted in Wyoming and vaccination levels do not yet confer communitywide protection.
âIf you look at our neighbors you might think we were being a little bit more conservative,â Riddell said. âBut I think if you look at the country as a whole and certainly the world as a whole, then I think weâre right where we should be.â
At noon Friday, representatives from St. John’s Health, the Teton County Health Department, the town of Jackson and the Teton County Board of County Commissioners will participate in the monthly
One-third of Wyoming adults say they are hesitant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine, the highest rate in the country.
Thatâs according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which has been polling households through its Pulse survey. In its most recent round of surveys, the Census found that 16.7% of adults said they would âdefinitely notâ get a vaccine and 16.5% would âprobably notâ receive one.
If the 33.2% overall level of hesitancy holds true, it could hamper the stateâs drive to reach herd immunity from COVID-19, which has been estimated to be between 70% and 80% protection across the population.
Following suit from the Food and Drug Administration, the Wyoming Department of Health is asking providers to pause using the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
Following rare cases of severe blood clots in patients who received Johnson and Johnson s single-shot vaccine, the FDA is recommending a pause in its use until the cases can be investigated. Six cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis have been found among the 6.8 million people who have received the vaccine in the United States.
That rate of roughly one in 1 million is lower than the incidence rate of the condition found in the general population, which studies have put at between 3 and 15 cases per million people, but the federal agency is acting out of an abundance of caution.
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