Approximately 700 Routt County residents have received 2nd dose of COVID-19 vaccine
(WorldNews Health)

Dr. Nathan Anderson, an emergency medicine physician at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center, receives his first COVID-19 vaccination Dec. 17. (Photo courtesy Nathan Anderson) STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Getting the second COVID-19 vaccination shot “comes down to the biology of how the vaccine works,” said Dr. Nathan Anderson, an emergency medicine physician at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center. Because the body has never seen this virus before, “it has to be taught what to look for,” Anderson said. “The purpose of the first shot is to give the body a genetic blueprint of what to recognize. Once it is taught to recognize it, that needs to be exercised so the body can do it independently — that`s...