{"id":44792,"date":"2021-09-08T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-county-covid-vaccine-workers-harassed-over-holiday\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T02:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T02:01:00","slug":"colorado-county-covid-vaccine-workers-harassed-over-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-county-covid-vaccine-workers-harassed-over-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado county COVID vaccine workers harassed over holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ce3e0e0e-22a4-5ab0-8967-cd570fe6d0e4&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1338\" alt=\"Medical assistant Jessica Gaston draws a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic for residents of zip code 80010 and existing refugee patients at Ardas Family Medicine in The Mango House in Aurora. (Eli Imadali\/Special to The Colorado Sun)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Medical assistant Jessica Gaston draws a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic for residents of zip code 80010 and existing refugee patients at Ardas Family Medicine in The Mango House in Aurora. (Eli Imadali\/Special to The Colorado Sun)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Eli Imadali\/Special to The Colorado Sun<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DENVER \u2013 A Colorado county\u2019s public health department took its three mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics off the streets after its staff members were harassed while providing inoculations over Labor Day weekend, the department\u2019s executive director said.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson County Public Health Executive Director Dawn Comstock said medical staff members working at a mobile vaccine clinic in neighboring Gilpin County, about 30 miles northwest of Denver, were yelled at and threatened by people passing by,<em id=\"emphasis-1ab642ce0511bf2f37c3d6bcd5db7bd9\"> The Denver Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2021\/09\/08\/jefferson-county-covid-vaccine-clinic-halted\/?utm_campaign=socialflow&amp;utm_content=tw-denverpostbrk&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social\" id=\"link-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditional cars drove by screaming obscenities at vaccine staff and throwing garbage at them,\u201d Comstock said. \u201cI will not put the hard-working public health staff in harm\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comstock said a driver ran over and destroyed signs put up around the vaccine clinic\u2019s tent. In a separate incident that day, someone threw an unidentified liquid at a nurse working a different mobile clinic in front of a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the epitome of selfishness, and I am angry today,\u201d Comstock said.<\/p>\n<p>Comstock said going forward, the department will only set up mobile vaccine clinics in places with security and that the department is looking into funding to hire its own protection.<\/p>\n<p>In response to harassment of health workers during the pandemic, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed a law in May that prohibits posting public health officials\u2019 personal information online to threaten their safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical assistant Jessica Gaston draws a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic for residents of zip code 80010 and existing refugee patients at Ardas Family Medicine in The Mango House in Aurora. (Eli Imadali\/Special to The Colorado Sun)Eli Imadali\/Special to The Colorado Sun DENVER \u2013 A Colorado county\u2019s public health department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44792"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}