Covid-19, courtesy Centers for Disease Control
Covid
Hospitalizations increase in Mesa County, vaccination rate at 40%
By Stina Sieg, CPR News
In Mesa County, health care workers are exhausted. And the COVID-19 cases keep coming.
“We just got to keep going,” said Dr. Thomas Tobin. “Cause there is no other option.”
Tobin is the chief medical officer for Community Hospital in Grand Junction. Starting around late April, Mesa County started to experience a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases — and now has some of the highest infection rates in the state. Hospitals are near or at capacity nearly every day.
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