By Doug Barrett
Feb 17, 2021 9:13 AM
With COVID still around vaccination efforts continue in Grand Forks County with over 15% of the population receiving a first dose shot. The eventual goal is 60% vaccination to achieve so-called “herd immunity” from the virus.
Public Health Director Debbie Swanson told county commissioners on Tuesday that local coronavirus numbers have ticked up a bit recently. Swanson says the county is also inching closer to the next eligible tier of vaccination which will include the Grand Forks County Correctional Center and congregate care during the week of February 22nd.
Grand Forks County has a two-dose coverage average of 8.5% compared to the state average of 6.6%.
Grand Forks jail may get vaccines in a month, but distribution poses challenge
Jail staff and Grand Forks Public Health nurses are working with a slate of unknowns to formulate the best plan to vaccinate the vulnerable jail population. 9:00 am, Feb. 7, 2021 ×
Fargo Cass Public Health said Wednesday, Jan. 13, that it will soon begin vaccinating older individuals and those with underlying health conditions. Jeenah Moon/Pool via REUTERS
People incarcerated in the Grand Forks County Correctional Center could begin to receive the vaccine in as little as four weeks.
That means jail staff and Grand Forks Public Health are grappling with the same challenge jails across the country are now facing: In the roughly three weeks between receiving the first and second shots, about 70 new people will have been brought into the jail, and dozens more will have been released.
Noberto Zapata Jr.
MAYVILLE, ND (KFGO) – A man wanted for attempted murder in the beating of a student on the Mayville State University campus has been arrested.
37-year-old Noberto Zapata, Jr. was found in an apartment in Hatton earlier this week. Traill County Chief Deputy Tony Ernst says Zapata tried to escape by going through a window, but he was quickly apprehended by deputies and state crime bureau agents. Zapata is one of five people charged in the attack.
The victim reported that he was grabbed by the hair, punched in the eye, hit with a baseball bat, stabbed in the head and thigh with a screwdriver and run over by a car. Security video from the school helped identify the suspects and the cars they were in.
KVRR Local News
January 22, 2021
MAYVILLE, ND (KVRR/KFGO) – A man wanted for attempted murder in the beating of a student on the Mayville State University campus has been arrested.
Thirty-seven-year-old Noberto Zapata, Jr. was found in an apartment in Hatton earlier this week. Zapata is one of five people charged in the attack.
Traill County Chief Deputy Tony Ernst says Zapata tried to escape by going through a window, but he was quickly apprehended by deputies and state crime bureau agents.
The victim reported that he was grabbed by the hair, punched in the eye, hit with a baseball bat, stabbed in the head and thigh with a screwdriver and run over by a car. Security video from the school helped identify the suspects and the cars they were in.