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COVID-19 boosters: are they available
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Who is eligible? BY JOHN DALEY AND OBED MANUEL COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO
Updated COVID-19 boosters are being rolled out at pharmacies and clinics in Colorado. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment officials expect the updated boosters to become more widely available in the state. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that people who are eligible for these boosters get their shots. The news comes just ahead of the fall, when cases could surge. Deaths, hospitalizations and positive cases have spiked every fall The next generation of the Paulson family — no date identified. FILE PHOTO since the pandemic began in 2020, according to state health department data. And the omicron variant fueled a massive spike in cases earlier this year. Now, with omicron’s subvariThese binders documented the ants — BA.4 and BA.5 — expected detailed. to drive infections in the fall and Johnson said he was interested in family’s lineages and generations of the Miller and Paulson family’s winter, state officials say they hope genealogy and started his Paulson up to 1980. It included decades of Coloradans will take advantage of genealogy family tree project just family photos. the added protection these boosters when COVID began in 2020, just The story ran in several Colorado offer. as something to do. But he’d never Community Media papers and on“It’s particularly important for found a bounty of information like line in December. By August 2022, people that have only had two or this before. BY BELEN WARD Johnson called Lyons to claim the three doses of the vaccine,” said “When I got the books it knocked BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM genealogy books, and she sent all me off my chair seeing those old Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday, addthree along right away. original photos, and I’ve seen some Timothy Johnson, who lives in ing that “if you’re medically vulner“I said, ‘I’m familiar with the of them and some I had not seen Shakopee, Minnesota, regularly able, it’s particularly important. He Paulson family tree book, but the before that are still surviving,” searched online for branches of spoke as he got his shot of the vacother two I’m not familiar with but Johnson said. his Paulson family tree. He never cine in front of a state vaccine bus you might as well send them to me. guessed he’d find three whole books at Ball Arena in downtown Denver. Maybe I can track down who should Surprising find about them in Fort Lupton, of all “This is just another very easy get those,’ “ Johnson said. The story starts when Cindy places. step that you can take to protect Johnson said all three albums are Lyons, a librarian with Fort Lupton yourself,” he said. Polis noted that “I was searching online, and an very valuable. He is from the PaulPublic School and Library, found the pandemic has claimed about article came up. I think it was the son side of the family; his grandthree three-inch ring binders of the 13,600 Colorado lives and that COCommerce City Sentinel Express. mother was Paulson and Johnson Paulson, Miller genealogy in the VID-19 “has a much lower hospitalThe article did not have pictures is from his dad’s side. He thinks library storage room. ization rate and an extremely low but the description matched the one of the relatives from California “I was searching the storage death rate, if you are fully vacciPaulson family tree, I immediately must have put the books together. room for history about the Fort nated.” called the librarian, “Johnson said. “The Paulson family tree books Lupton library and came across About 150 people had signed It was a November 2021 story were distributed within the Paulthe three binders. I think someone up Wednesday to get their vacabout how librarians at the Fort Every year before Thanksgiving, First United Methodist Church in Fort Luptonson and the Fort Lupton Food and Clothingcine Bank provide community family. So we have numerous was cleaning out a relative’s house shots at the Ball Arena site. Lupton Public Library had some members with food boxes. This will be the program’s 10th consecutive year. Above, Joe Hubert, left China Garcia and Sue Hubert 4 Change, books out there with our family,” and mixing the genealogy books “There’s stillwith a lotChange of demand,” said very specific genealogical books with donated Lyons said. “I the governor. among pile of donations. anothera organization that Librarhelps with the food drive.books,” See more on Page 2. Johnson said. ians had found the books and hoped needed help in finding the relatives of these precious books.” to find the family whose past they SEE LIBRARY, P13 SEE BOOSTERS, P14
Lost books turn into found family traces Family genealogy in Fort Lupton finds its place back in Minnesota
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