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The Wyoming Legislature will hold a three-day legislative session to craft legislation that opposes COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
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Over in the northwest part of the state is Sublette County. It's the only county in the state without a hospital and it's in the top five for lowest vaccination rates in the state. Wyoming Public Radio's Caitlin Tan brings us this story.
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As the federal government prepares to hand down vaccine requirements for large employers, Republican leadership in Wyoming has pushed for a special session to take action.
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Wyoming has roughly a 39 percent vaccination rate against COVID-19 and is seeing its hospitals fill up. State health officials say that approximately 96 percent of those in the hospital have not been vaccinated. Another fact is that by the time many reach the hospital they have serious cases of COVID-19 because they didn't seek treatment when symptoms first arrived. Dr. Donald Lloyd Jones is the President of the American Heart Association and the Director of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He tells Wyoming Public Radio's Bob Beck why Wyoming's numbers concern him.
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The Las Vegas Raiders' vaccine mandate is persuading fans to get their first shot – despite some grumbling that it's a personal foul.
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The Campbell County Health Board of Trustees wants to fight COVID-19 vaccine requirements coming soon from the federal government.
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In Las Vegas, county commissioners passed a resolution calling misinformation a "public health crisis," while Idaho's public health department is cracking down on misinformation on Facebook.
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“Almost all of them tell me, ‘I had no idea it was like this. If I had only known I would have gotten vaccinated. If I had only known I would have taken this so much more seriously,’” says an ICU nurse in North Idaho. “For them it’s already happened. They can’t go back and change their decision.”
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COVID-19 vaccination rates in Albany County are picking up slowly. County public health officials took advantage of the last Wyoming football game to get more people to take the shot.
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Natrona County has had a tough time with COVID-19 with high numbers of people hospitalized. Meanwhile, only 35 percent of the county has been fully vaccinated. County Health Officer Dr. Mark Dowell joins Bob Beck to discuss the vaccine and what it might take to turn things around.