By Brian Burbach
Dec 15, 2020
Kevin Londrigan, a doctor at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, was the first Colorado doctor to receive the long awaited Pfizer vaccination for COVID-19. He was followed by 20 more staff members at the same hospital. Although this is the first step in a very long process, it feels as if the end of the pandemic is in sight. For more info on this story, read here.
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Christy Ruffell, manager of clinic nursing standards at UCHealth Medical Center, left, administers the very first Covid-19 vaccine to Kevin Londrigan, a respiratory therapist at UCHealth Medical Center, right, at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital on December 14, 2020 in Fort Collins, Colorado.
As Kevin Londrigan rolled up his right sleeve and prepared to become the first person in Colorado to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, he thought of his colleagues in the intensive care unit.
For nine months, they had fought to save patients’ lives. They scavenged PPE, improvised treatments and worked long shifts on the front lines of a pandemic that has killed more than 3,000 Coloradans.
The US hit a new record for hospitalizations with 110,549 patients being treated for COVID-19 yesterday
The number of hospitalizations has surpassed the 100,000 mark every day for the last two weeks with the seven-day rolling average of patients now at 107,856
There were 1,311 new deaths and more than 193,000 new cases reported on the same day that Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine started rolling out across the country
The death toll surpassed the grim 300,000 milestone yesterday just hours after the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered in the country
The Midwestern states of North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa currently have the highest number of deaths per 100,000 people based on a seven-day average
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Colorado received its first shipment of the coronavirus vaccine Monday morning, launching a months-long inoculation process that health officials hope will start to have meaningful effects on limiting transmission of the disease in the state by late spring.
A FedEx van delivered 975 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s lab in east Denver. The vehicle arrived at a loading dock at 8:05 a.m. Gov. Jared Polis was on hand for the delivery, personally signing for the suitcase-sized package.
“It’s the Pfizer vaccine arriving here in Colorado to end the pandemic!” Polis called out as Preston Riley, a FedEx delivery man wearing a purple and orange uniform, rang the freight-entrance doorbell and wheeled up the cardboard box.