{"id":18908,"date":"2021-10-01T10:31:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T14:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18908"},"modified":"2021-10-01T10:31:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T14:31:55","slug":"a-colorado-town-is-about-as-vaccinated-as-it-can-get-covid-still-isnt-over-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18908","title":{"rendered":"A Colorado Town Is About as Vaccinated as It Can Get. Covid Still Isn\u2019t Over There."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rae Ellen Bichell for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County, Colorado, can boast that 99.9% of its eligible population has received at least one dose of covid-19 vaccine, putting it in the top 10 counties in the nation,\u00a0according to data\u00a0from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>If vaccines were the singular armor against covid\u2019s spread, then on paper, San Juan County, with its 730 or so residents on file, would be one of the most bulletproof places in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the past few months have shown the complexity of this phase of the pandemic. Even in an extremely vaccinated place, the shots alone aren\u2019t enough because geographic boundaries are porous, vaccine effectiveness may be waning over time and the delta variant is highly contagious. Infectious-disease experts say masks are still necessary to control the spread of the virus.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/a-colorado-town-is-about-as-vaccinated-as-it-can-get-covid-still-isnt-over-there\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rae Ellen Bichell for Kaiser Health News) San Juan County, Colorado, can boast that 99.9% of its eligible population<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18909,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18908\/revisions\/18909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}