Update on Coronavirus and vaccine clinics
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LYMAN — People are so used to looking like a masked bandit, they don a mask and venture out, but confirmed cases continue to be recorded.
Amazing statistic cropped up, as people knew it would. Amid pandemic, flu has virtually disappeared in the US.
According to Kim Proffit, Uinta County Public Health, Monday, there looks like there is hope as the growing numbers are now being reduced. In addition, she talked about the vaccine clinics and noted the one in Bridger Valley last Friday wasn’t held as the vaccine was not received due to weather conditions. She did say the clinic was being held today in Mountain View, most of the shots were the second shot with a smaller number of first shots.
Proffit said The county would continue to bounce the clinics between Evanston and the Valley. Currently the clinics are aimed at those 65 and older or school district staff. The new stage of Phase 1b allows caregivers of people who have medical conditions noted in Phase 1b can now pre-register to receive a vaccine, according to the latest release from thw Wyoming Department of Health this week.
Proffit said the county had vaccinated over 3,000 residents, “my staff, 2,000.” A new change is Walmart is to start holding clinics across the state, but didn’t know how many doses were being allocated to Walmart. She said the county had received last week’s doses, 400, Monday and hoped to receive this week’s doses Wednesday or Thursday, 500 first shots and 300 second shots. Wyoming had expected to receive over 9,000 doses the Moderna vaccine the week of Feb. 14, but these didn’t materialize due to the weather.
According to a release by Kim Deti, Wyoming Department of Health, nine more coronavirus-related deaths have been reported among Wyoming residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been confirmed, according to the Wyoming Wednesday. The deaths announced by the department took place in January and February and brought the number of Wyoming residents whose deaths have been linked to the virus to 671. All but one of the deaths reported Tuesday involved older adults.
However, the department also released numbers showing the number of active COVID cases in Wyoming fell by more than 60 on Tuesday.
As of Monday, Feb. 22, U.S. death toll had passed 500,000 according to reports.
all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined. But this death toll is greatly less than that of the bubonic plague in the 1300’s, small pox in the 1500s, the Spanish Flu in the early 1900’s and many others when there was far fewer people in the United States.
