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Colorado county COVID vaccine workers harassed over holiday

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Posted at 12:41 PM, Sep 08, 2021
and last updated 2021-09-08 14:41:54-04

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado county’s public health department director says officials took three mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics off the streets after staff were harassed while providing inoculations over Labor Day weekend.

Jefferson County Public Health executive director Dawn Comstock says staff at a mobile vaccine clinic in Gilpin County were yelled at and threatened by people passing by, The Denver Post reported.

Comstock says a driver ran over and destroyed signs put up around the vaccine clinic’s tent.

In a separate incident, someone also threw an unidentified liquid at a nurse working a different mobile clinic in front of a restaurant.