Part 1 of 2 The rollout of the Moderna coronavirus vaccines has reached rural areas around Montana, including the Ruby Valley. Healthcare workers and nursing home residents have been the first to receive the vaccine and most of the population should have an opportunity to obtain the first of two doses of the vaccine by the end of April. The only vaccines which have received FDA emergency use authorization to date are produced by Moderna and Pfizer/Bio-N-Tech. Both vaccines us

By Emilie Sayler Public Information Officer for the Ruby Valley Medical Center Covid-19 Incident Command Team Reprinted with Permission from The Madisonian At the end of December, the State of Montana released an Information Sheet through the Montana Health Alert Network. The information sheet communicates direction for healthcare and public health entities in a phased distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines. This information was then updated on Dec. 31, but on Jan. 6, Gov. Gre