vaccinations

The recent diagnoses mark the first confirmed cases of anthrax in Wyoming since the 1970s.

Wyoming parents can look up their kids' vaccination records on Docket, a secure website and smartphone app offered by the department.

Since the legislature is meeting in a budget session this year, non-budgetary proposals such as House Bill 59 will require a 2/3 majority vote for introduction.

The Wyoming Department of Health is urging everyone over the age of six months to get an updated COVID-19 vaccination. A WDH news release quotes state epidemiologist and state health officer Dr. Alexia Harrist as saying “We’ve seen the virus that causes COVID-19 continue to change and we’ve learned protection from COVID-19 vaccines is valuable, but does decline over time." She goes on to ...

A similar bill died in a special session of the legislature last year.

As of yesterday [Dec. 20], 43 percent of Wyoming residents were fully vaccinated, according to the Wyoming Department of Health.

For the fifth week in a row, none of the patients in the ICU or on ventilators at the Cheyenne hospital have been fully vaccinated.

For the fourth week in a row, none of the patients in CRMC'S intensive care unit or on a ventilator had been fully vaccinated.

For the third week in a row, none of the patients in the Intensive Care Unit or on ventilators had been vaccinated.

None of the patients in the ICU or on the ventilator over the last two weekly reports from the hospital has been vaccinated, and only one patient in the weekly report the week prior to those reports had been fully vaccinated.

The total has numbered over 50 at times this year, so the latest numbers appear to show the virus caseload trending downward from where it was earlier in 2021.

So we wondered..are you still taking precautions against COVID 19? If so, what?