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TexasTowelie

(112,061 posts)
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 06:08 AM Oct 2021

Sublette County faces worst outbreak of COVID-19 with no hospital and vaccine skepticism

Sublette County is situated in northwest Wyoming, covering about 3.2 million acres with a population of about 10,000 people. That is about one square mile per person.

But with this rural region comes complications accessing amenities, like emergency health care.

"We're staffed for like, basically coming in for an occasional emergency," said Jason Ray, physician's assistant at the two Sublette County medical clinics.

There is no hospital — so patients needing extensive care depend on life flights or ambulance rides to the nearest hospitals, sometimes hundreds of miles away.

Read more: https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/2021-10-15/sublette-county-faces-worst-outbreak-of-covid-19-with-no-hospital-and-vaccine-skepticism

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Sublette County faces worst outbreak of COVID-19 with no hospital and vaccine skepticism (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2021 OP
Wyoming has been abysmal for months now and keeps filling N. CO hospitals/seeding infections hlthe2b Oct 2021 #1

hlthe2b

(102,190 posts)
1. Wyoming has been abysmal for months now and keeps filling N. CO hospitals/seeding infections
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 06:28 AM
Oct 2021

Larimer County has gone back to an enforced mask mandate (which I overwhelmingly support, but shows how desperate the constant spread has become).

That WY isn't even close to 50% vaccinated so angers me. CO has been responsible, but we are paying the price for WY being so ... NOT.

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