Lizzy Dwyer, left, an emergency room nurse with Kalispell Regional Healthcare, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Norbert Tombarge, of Kalispell, at the Flathead County Fairgrounds on Thursday, Jan. 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
January 21, 2021
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County vaccination effort saved lives
Flathead City-County Health Department last week wrapped up its large-scale community immunization clinic at the Flathead County Fairgrounds. The effort to coordinate and administer as many shots as possible, as efficiently as possible, was nothing short of heroic.
5,000-plus doses of vaccine given in Flathead County
New state dashboard tracks vaccine numbers
A new online dashboard created and maintained by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services shows Flathead County has given more than 5,000 shots of the COVID-19 to residents and nearly 1,300 individuals are fully immunized.
Vaccine recipients see shot as path back to normal
Eliza Thomas couldn’t help but tear up when it was her mother’s turn to take a seat in the plastic chair, roll up a sleeve of her choice and receive her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.