{"id":46848,"date":"2021-05-11T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jj-vaccine-offered-may-12-at-county-annex\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:35:10","slug":"jj-vaccine-offered-may-12-at-county-annex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jj-vaccine-offered-may-12-at-county-annex\/","title":{"rendered":"J&amp;J vaccine offered May 12 at county annex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=015dfc34-1f5d-5a5b-a2e6-b84673c0cf88&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"792\" height=\"565\" alt=\"Southwest Health System, which manages Southwest Memorial Hospital, in Cortez, administered its 10,000th COVID-19 vaccine on April 27.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Southwest Health System, which manages Southwest Memorial Hospital, in Cortez, administered its 10,000th COVID-19 vaccine on April 27.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Southwest Health System<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma County Public Health Department will hold a Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccination clinic May 12 at the County Annex building at 107 N. Chestnut from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The J&amp;J vaccine is a single-dose vaccine for the COVID-19 virus, and is available to anyone 18 years and older. No appointment is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVaccines are available to anyone 18 or older who wants one,\u201d said Vicki Shaffer, county public information officer.<\/p>\n<p>They are offered at public vaccination clinics, or can be obtained anytime by calling the county health department at 970-565-3056.<\/p>\n<p>As of May 9, 48% of Montezuma County residents eligible for the vaccine have received at least one dose, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.<\/p>\n<p>In Dolores County, 37% of eligible residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine. In La Plata County, 63% have received at least one vaccine dose.<\/p>\n<p>There have been numerous vaccinations clinics in Montezuma County, including from the health department, Southwest Health System, Axis Health System, and mobile clinics.<\/p>\n<p>On April 27, Southwest Health System gave its 10,000th vaccination for COVID-19, according to a Facebook post. SHS has completed 57 vaccination clinics averaging 176 patients per clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer was recently authorized to provide a COVID-19 vaccine for use with children ages 12-15. That vaccine is not yet available in Montezuma County, but it is expected to arrive soon, Shaffer said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=37.3501892%2C-108.5872179&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>appointment necessary; vaccine is single dose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,21,289,28,60,29,668,210,538,291],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-cortez","tag-disease","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-public-health","tag-southwest-health-system","tag-southwest-memorial-hospital","tag-vaccines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87056,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46848\/revisions\/87056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46848"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}