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Casper-Natrona County Health Dept. Expands Vaccine Eligibility Just who can receive a vaccine will expand in Natrona County this week. The Casper-Natrona County Health Department on Monday said that beginning Wednesday, anyone who is 70 years or older will be able to get a vaccine at locations across Casper. Enter your number to get our free mobile app It's part of the health department's planned vaccination phasing. “With the beginning of this new phase, we’re able to start protecting our most vulnerable populations,” Public Information Officer Hailey Bloom said. “Phase 1A went well,...

It’s Christmas Eve and she’s tired. She's been tired for the majority of the year. Like most healthcare workers, she puts in long hours and long days. Days turn into nights, then back into days again. Time becomes irrelevant because it seems like she is always at the hospital. Christmas for many healthcare workers looks like reheated leftovers, videos of gifts being opened, It’s a Wonderful Life on a muted TV and maybe, if they’re lucky, a tree. Enter your number to get our free mobile app Still, she comes to work. She does her job. And, in many cases, her job is saving lives. This jo...

But a glimmer of hope arrived Wednesday in Natrona County. The COVID-19 vaccine is here. “It truly is awesome to come this far along in 10 months, through tragedy and everything else, it’s a big moment,” said Dr. Andy Dunn, Wyoming Medical Center chief of staff and the first staff member to be vaccinated Wednesday morning. A shipment of 975 Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines arrived at both the Natrona County and Laramie County health departments Monday. On Tuesday, 10 Cheyenne health care workers became the first in the state to receive the long-awaited shot. Wednesday morning,...

First COVID-19 Vaccines Arrive, Administered in Natrona County A Casper firefighter on Wednesday received the first shot of the first shipment to Natrona County of the COVID-19 vaccine. “I’m just relieved that the vaccine is finally here so we can get ourselves out of this,” Dane Andersen said. He was among about a dozen Casper Fire Department personnel who met at the Casper-Natrona County Health Department to receive the shot, Andersen said. The health department received its first shipment doses, stored in refrigerated cases, in the past day,  department community prevention manager ...