Ouray County could receive its first 100 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of December, Public Health Director Tanner Kingery said.

The first vaccines were distributed and administered this week around the country, but Kingery said he’s not expecting to receive any locally until likely the last week of December.

Those initial doses were the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which received an Emergency Use Authorization last Friday. That vaccine must be stored at ultra-cold temperatures, minus 70 d...