David Acker swabs his mouth during a drive-up COVID test at the OurayCounty Public Health Agency, while public health nurse Rebecca Stewart waits to collect the swab. The county made tests available to people without symptoms or known contact with positive cases last week, and is now testing about 20 people daily, including visitors like Acker, who lives in San Francisco and was visiting relatives in the area. Anyone who wants to be tested at the health department can sign up for an appointment by visiting
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County preps for vaccine
Ouray County is shopping for ultracold freezers to store COVID-19 vaccines, in anticipation of receiving doses early next year.
“Help is in fact on the way. Vaccines are literally on the threshold for us,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday in a virtual news conference with Gov. Jared Polis. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said about 4o million doses of the vaccine enough for 20 million people, as the vaccines require two doses – will be available b...
