Some Coloradans get COVID-19 vaccine before their priority-level
UCHealth launched a small pilot to begin vaccinating a very limited number of patients who are 75 years old or older. Author: Steve Staeger Updated: 7:56 PM MST December 29, 2020
FORT COLLINS, Colo. It all happened rather fast for Roger Wolfe. He got an e-mail Monday night asking if he was interested in getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
By Tuesday morning, he was at UCHealth’s Poudre Valley Hospital getting the Moderna vaccine.
“I was very surprised because I thought they were just giving shots to health care providers and people and staff at nursing homes,” said Wolfe, a former 9NEWS Northern Newsroom reporter.
Casey s Pond
Sheila Haddox, a resident at Casey s Pond in Steamboat Springs, received the first of two COVID-19 vaccine doses on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020.
As COVID-19 vaccines rolled out for residents in long-term care, almost 300 of Colorado’s facilities were contending with active outbreaks involving more than 9,000 infections.
CVS Health confirmed that much-anticipated efforts to vaccinate an estimated 58,800 long-term care residents got underway Monday, Dec. 28. It’s the next piece in what state officials dub “Phase 1,” a rollout that began on Dec. 14 with the vaccinations of frontline health workers including those at UC Health Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins.
Those who have been vaccinated are not yet protected from the virus that won’t happen until a booster shot is administered. Both of the federally-approved vaccines one from Pfizer-BioNTech, the other from Moderna require a second shot three to four weeks after an initial dose.
FORT COLLINS Orthopedics groups based in Fort Collins and Longmont will complete their merger, effective Jan. 1.
Fort Collins-based Orthopaedic & Spine Center of the Rockies and Longmont-based Front Range Orthopedics & Spine will combine under the OCR umbrella. The deal was
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