A year of struggle trying to get the community vaccinated

Local health care has seen a great deal of change in the last year as vaccination for COVID-19 continues throughout the community and booster shots roll out while the system is strained by the latest surge of COVID-19.

Northern Montana Health Care Director of Infection Prevention Alysia Mosness has spearheaded much of hospital's efforts to vaccinate as much of the community as possible, and in that respect it has been a very unusual and ever-shifting year of work.

"Interesting is, I guess, is a word you could use," Mosness said.

When the vaccine first became available, health care had to limit...