{"id":48899,"date":"2021-02-01T03:20:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T10:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southwest-health-seeks-people-70-and-older-for-covid-19-vaccine-clinic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:45:05","slug":"southwest-health-seeks-people-70-and-older-for-covid-19-vaccine-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southwest-health-seeks-people-70-and-older-for-covid-19-vaccine-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Health seeks people 70 and older for COVID-19 vaccine clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=89c9dd1a-d0e0-42e9-8645-36ab2deb0bae&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1392\" alt=\"Southwest Health System is administering the COVID-19 vaccine for people 70 and older.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Southwest Health System is administering the COVID-19 vaccine for people 70 and older.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Southwest Health System is seeking people age 70 and older to fill open slots in its COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Feb. 3 clinic has about 100 doses available for people in the age category to receive the vaccine shot, SHS executive assistant Bridgett Jabour said Sunday in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to confirm appointments for that day have fallen short so far, she said.<\/p>\n<p>SHS\u2019s current vaccine supply is earmarked for the 70-and-older age group in Phase 1B.1 of the state\u2019s distribution plan.<\/p>\n<p>Once shipped to Southwest Memorial Hospital, the vaccines must be administered within days before they expire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForward this information if you have people interested in receiving the vaccine who are over 70\u201d such as \u201ca friend, neighbor or family member,\u201d SHS said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>There is no charge for the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>To sign up for the SHS Feb. 3 COVID-19 vaccine clinic, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swhealth.org\/covid-19info\/?fbclid=IwAR14ZRr4Dca_woaarEtGRFDf0eWs4kECSc5o6jaAMc-iZiTUqylDluJg6-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.swhealth.org?Covid-10info\/<\/a> or call the hotline at 970-564-2201. To receive a vaccine, a person does not have to be affiliated with SHS, but must be 70 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado is currently vaccinating eligible Coloradans for Phase 1A and Phase 1B.1.<\/p>\n<p>Coloradans in Phase 1B.2 will be eligible beginning Feb. 8 and will depend on available vaccine supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The category includes people ages 65-69; educators; school staff, including bus drivers, counselors, administrators and food workers; executive and judicial branches of state government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 doses still available at Feb. 3 clinic in Cortez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,21,13,28,29,291],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-vaccines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48899","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=48899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87481,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48899\/revisions\/87481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48899"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}