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U.S. Sen. Barrasso encourages Wyoming residents to take COVID-19 vaccine
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U.S. Sen. John Barrasso is encouraging residents of Wyoming to take the vaccine as it becomes available.
Barasso is a medical professional himself, having practiced as an orthopedic surgeon for over 24 years in Wyoming. During that time he served as president of the Wyoming Medical Society and was named Wyoming Physician of the Year.
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine began to arrive in Wyoming earlier this week, with the first injections being administered to frontline healthcare workers on Dec. 15.
Sheridan Memorial Hospital is expected to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine this week. Those first doses of the vaccine will be administered to vulnerable residents and frontline healthcare professionals according to the Wyoming Department of Health’s distribution plan and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Some Wyoming residents have expressed concern and distrust of the vaccine on social media platforms with many saying they will not take the vaccine.
Barrasso said taking the vaccine is not mandatory, but after looking at the research himself, he and his family will receive the vaccine when the opportunity becomes available.
Research on the Pfixer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine can be found here.
According to the Pfizer study, in clinical studies, adverse reactions in participants 16 years of age and older included pain at the injection site (84.1%), fatigue (62.9%), headache (55.1%), muscle pain (38.3%), chills (31.9%), joint pain (23.6%), fever (14.2%), injection site swelling (10.5%), injection site redness (9.5%), nausea (1.1%), malaise -general discomfort- (0.5%), and lymphadenopathy -swollen lymph nodes- (0.3%).
The senator hopes residents see the vaccine as a light at the end of the tunnel and expressed his concern regarding the loss of life in his state.
James Galloway
December 17, 2020 at 7:07 pm
You should really take that vaccine and keep your kids in masks for a couple more years. Because, Covid?
Harriett Oleson
December 18, 2020 at 9:28 am
I guess I don’t understand your post. Are you just being sarcastic about Covid ? If so, I am happy for you because apparently, you have not lost anyone close to you, like a LOT of us have. Seems like that is the loss, it takes to convince some folks that this Covid is a SERIOUS threat. There are a few folks, that just don’t get anything Ever!!!
Mitch Smith
December 18, 2020 at 1:03 pm
you never lost anyone to covid! You may have known people who had it and died, but to place blame on covid, is much like saying they died because they drank water 24 hrs before death……. Water did not kill them.
Harriet Oleson
December 18, 2020 at 3:42 pm
Your reply is Very Confusing to me. All I know is my THREE friends got sick, went into ICU and their families & doctors said they died from Covid. That is good enough for me to blame Covid… But then I have not drank the “denial” Kool-Aid that some folks use to hide behind. There is a real reality outside twitter chirps, my friend.
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Thomas Jones
December 17, 2020 at 8:28 pm
Lead by example senator, and be the first…..live on the air, so all of Wyoming can witness it.
Sam Grover
December 20, 2020 at 7:38 am
I need a better explanation for why a healthy person who likely won’t suffer much more than cold-like symptoms from SARS-Cov2 needs to be vaccinated against it, especially children who are asymptomatic pretty much across the board. I also need to know why I should take the advice of a medical “professional” who couldn’t possibly have done more than one year of research on this RNA vaccine, if any at all. The last rushed vaccine took 4 years to be pushed out. 4 years. I’ll pass.