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Brandon seriously saidCOVID-19 [Feminine Arrived in Wheatland, the way new films do in this city of plains: months after hitting big cities and without a lot of fanfare.

"It's a bit poured in and he never really exploded here," said Serious, resident and mayor of the city of the city of about 3,500 years, the largest County of Platte.

Many residents say that the virus causes Covid to felt more as a disadvantage that was imposed on them by foreigners than a public threat. For example, public service invoices arrived late because the company that prints them is in a city that was hit hard by Covid. And the city is blocked in repair and reappearing one of its aging trash trucks, because the ordered replacement has been delayed by more than one year due to a scarcity induced by covidation in microchips.

Then there is the "Navy Colorado", the nickname of the local population for the parade of vehicles with towing boats that crosses the state line each summer. Their numbers swollen last year because people have sought lakes and campgrounds open during the pandemic, said Shawna Reichert, Executive Director of the County of Platte Chamber of Commerce.

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The campers were very well stored around Gryrocks Reservoir, a popular fishing place outside the city, said Reichert: "It literally listed a city." The crowd destroyed the place and a breeder lost several cows. Plastic bags have been found in their stomach.

It's not a surprise of many residents are lukewarm at Covid's ideavaccines: July 6, about 29% of Platte County residents were fully vaccinated,according to the state health service. And wyoming, a conservative state of staircase, about 32% of the inhabitants are entirely vaccinated, which gives itone of the lowest vaccination rates of the nation. Maybe not surprising, the state hasOne of the new highest case rates in the nation.

What might be surprising is that the Wyoming neighbor south has recently experienced similar nurseries. Colorado is a democratic adematic state whose population is about 53% fully vaccinated, placing it in the first 15 states of vaccination rates. He also had the12th new cases among states As of July 9, ranking a few states below Wyoming.

Within Colorado, one of the most immunized counties is the County of San Miguel, which, like the County of Platete de Wyoming, has a population of just over 8,000 people. The two counties entered into June with high transmission rates and maintained them for several weeks rights, but their vaccination rates are reversed from each other: less than one-third of the residents of the County of Platete are entirely vaccinated, While about one-third of residents of San Miguel County are not. The common wire in both places: pockets of non-vaccinated residents.

Health leaders keep a narrow eye on COVIDHot spots that have emerged in recent weeks Attached to low vaccination rates.

"One of the things we have surprising to the alarm is the need for hyper-local data," said Jennifer Nuzzo, epidemiologist with the Schoolberg Schoolberg Bloomberg Public Health. "The state could look good and you can think, like", no big problem. We have this. "But then when you exercise at the county, you might see a very different story."

The county level could even be granular enough to show a real risk. Small high ups high in case can be significant even in low populated settlements - and not just because of the spill transmission potential through the county or state lines.

"Small increases in cases in rural areas can have devastating consequences because they are chances, there are fewer health care resources in these locations to save lives," she said. "There have been good studies that, partially, the ability of the virus to kill people depends on the bandwidth of the health system to save people."

After months of reporting, few cases, the Public Health of the County of Platte recorded a warning on Facebook in early June that 14 people had been tested positive for Covid in the same number of days and ended up at the hospital .

This chain of case struck the County of Platte in the "Red Zone" high transmission rate. "The tracing of Platte County contacts has shown that non-vaccinated people will work and group group gatherings while sick", read the publication.

Joan Ivaska, senior director of prevention of infection for the health of the banner, who manages a bed of 25 bedshospital In WHEETLAND, confirmed that Covid patients were admitted throughout June, although she refused to say how much. The hospitalhas only two Intensive care beds for adults.

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She and other health leaders continue to emphasize that the best vaccine coverage is the only way to return to normal.

The challenge, said Kim Deti, spokesman for the Wyoming Department of Health, is not only the politicization of Covid vaccines, which has become a lot against them, which is a factor. It is also that many people have resumed activities and believe that the pandemic is behind them.

"We have had relatively low levels of COVID-19 diseases in most areas of the state for a while, which affects the perception of the threat," said Déti. "There are many people who work very hard and try everything they can. Wyoming's coverage rate is not for lack of effort."

In the County of San Miguel, Colorado, people have been dismissed to get shots from the outset. "Interests have been very badly passionate because vaccines have become widely available," Lindsey Mills of Lindsey SpoKesperson said.

The County of San Miguel hit the president of President Joe Biden aim of immunization to have at least one dose in 70% of the residents of the adults a few weeks before July 4th, the deadline as a whole was missing. However, the county lived a thrust in cases of Covid similar to that of its Wyoming counterpart. More than 460 days after Colorado said Covid a disaster emergency, the County of San Miguel recorded itsCovid's first death June 14th.

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The reason? It turns out that everyone was not as enthusiastic about vaccines as the high rates of San Miguel County indicated. The figures provided by the local health department show that on the east side of the east side of the county, at the home of the Telluride Repeat Ski Resort, about 80% of eligible residents opted. On the west side, which residents call the western end, only about half of half. This left the county vulnerable to continuous propagation.

The East-West Division in San Miguel County reflects a pre-existing cultural fracture, according to Mike Bordogna, head of the county. The unfairly populated west, which extends to the Line of Utah, was historically stirring the county, growing crops and livestock that nourished mining towns like Telluride, now known for skiing and festivals. Film and Bluegrass.

A KHN analysis of the data provided by the County of San Miguel shows that since the beginning of the pandemic, most cases of Covid of the county were on the east side, where most residents live. But in May, the tables turned. While the west side has generally registered less than 10% of county cases in the first year of the pandemic, in May and June, its share was suddenly greater than 64%, assisted on the arrival ofThe Delta variant.

At the end of May, a non-vaccinated woman in the end of the 1970s living in the West County district caught the alternative delta to a potluck following a funeral and died after a week at the time. hospital. Other non-vaccinated funerary presidents also caught the virus.

"Just about everyone who was not captivated became sick after the fact - either positively tested, simply became sick and has not been tested," said Amanda Baltzley, contact supervisor tracker of the department of the Public health of San Miguel.

Sheila Grother, an EMT and contacts Tracer who works with Baltzley and has lived in Norwood City of Norwood for more than 30 years, said she was nowhere to try to persuade people to get vaccinated - even if two western vaccinated inhabitants contracted the alternative delta at about the same time as the deceased woman and more than 70 years old,restored.

"I'm in people when they are at their worst and I am with them in their worst days possible," she said. "I thought that at a time that people, you know, trusted my judgment to a certain extent, and I think some do, but there are those who are not going to have the cursed vaccine."

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But the county leaders will be hopeful that some will have a change of heart. Bordogna said that health officials work on plans to set up surreptiteous immunization stations at the next County and Rodeo fair to facilitate the opportunity to worry without worrying about being spotted. The goal is to create a system in which participants can, for example, tell a family member or friend, they moved to the bathroom and get a picture instead.

Back in Wheatland, few people were aware of the hospitalizations that occurred in early June. Alice Wickert, who manages the Motel 6 in the city, suspects that most residents were probably not aware of a tip in business.

"There was not really anyone here who had a strong fear," she said. "We just continued a lot with life."

But it was not the case for a temporary motel resident. Angela Brixius is a Nebraska laboratory technician working at the local hospital, where, among other things, she deals with Covid tests and regularly convinced meetings that Covid is a hoax.

"I'm worried about people who are not vaccinated who came out and know who speaks to everyone they encounter on how it's not real," Brixius said. "I meet people in the hospital:" I do not need a buffer. I do not have Covid. It's not real. '

"People still die of Covid. It's always happening, and it should be done," Brixius said before coming out the door of the food and fresh air before another stitch at midnight in the laboratory.As for yourself, to cross this pandemic with your healthiest, do not miss these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.

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