{"id":49424,"date":"2021-01-08T17:38:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-governor-explains-vaccine-access-for-adults-70-and-older\/"},"modified":"2021-01-09T00:38:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:38:13","slug":"colorado-governor-explains-vaccine-access-for-adults-70-and-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-governor-explains-vaccine-access-for-adults-70-and-older\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado governor explains vaccine access for adults 70 and older"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b7faf3b6-1cd4-4a8f-b20e-df6831aee573&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1114\" alt=\"Gov. Jared Polis speaks to reporters at a news conference on Oct. 13.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Gov. Jared Polis speaks to reporters at a news conference on Oct. 13.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jesse Paul\/The Colorado Sun<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The goal is to have 70% of Colorado residents ages 70 and older vaccinated by the end of February, Polis said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Across the state, local health officials are feeling frustrated about the lack of clear guidance in the phased distribution and vaccine disparities. They\u2019re also fielding complaints and worries from older Colorado residents who are confused and unaware of how to actually get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine, The Colorado Sun reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals are contacting all patients in the 70-year-plus age group who are in their systems in order to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments, Polis said.<\/p>\n<p>Those in the correct age group who are interested in getting the vaccine but have not heard from a local hospital, can set up an account online. For those who don\u2019t have access to a hospital, there will be community centers and health clinics distributing vaccines for interested seniors, Polis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those seniors that aren\u2019t or can\u2019t get on portals or have their kids or grandkids help them get on portals and sign up \u2013 we really want to be in the community in a way that reaches out and makes sure that they have access from the very get-go to the life-saving vaccine,\u201d Polis said.<\/p>\n<p>Polis also said Colorado is developing weekly partnerships with mobile health clinics to bring vaccines to underserved areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn reaching everybody, it\u2019s important that we go beyond just our regular hospital system in making sure that people 70 and up can be protected,\u201d Polis said.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado is seeing early signs of an increase after the holidays, said state epidemiologist Rachel Herlihy. It\u2019s too soon to know the virus impacts from New Year\u2019s Eve, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Jared Polis speaks to reporters at a news conference on Oct. 13.Jesse Paul\/The Colorado Sun The goal is to have 70% of Colorado residents ages 70 and older vaccinated by the end of February, Polis said Friday. Across the state, local health officials are feeling frustrated about the lack of clear guidance in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49424","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=49424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49424"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}