Organizations across the Valley held vaccine events for underserved communities, including people with disabilities after many have faced a lack of access and barriers to getting the COVID-19 vaccine in Arizona.
Among the 1,150 people expected to be vaccinated at South Mountain Community College Saturday was Valerie Duckett. She talked to The Arizona Republic as she sat in the designated recovery zone in the school s gym, minutes after getting her first and only dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Registration tables were set up just outside the gym, after which point individuals joined a line snaking around the gym leading to the vaccination stations. There were five vaccination tables, each with two Walgreens employees administering the vaccines.
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Disability rights groups and advocates are calling on Gov. Doug Ducey to prioritize people with disabilities and their caregivers in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Parents of children with disabilities are pleading their case to the governor.Michele Thorne is the founder of DAMES, or Differently Abled Mothers Empowerment Society. She’s also the mother to two children who were
Advocates for people with disabilities are fighting for stronger communication and vaccine availability from a state level. Author: Chris Latella Updated: 7:19 PM MST March 4, 2021
ARIZONA, USA Advocates for those with disabilities expressed their concern and frustration Thursday about the vaccine distribution phases.
They say their attempts to get the Governor’s Office to recognize the disabled community as a high-need group, have gone unanswered.
For many of those with disabilities, who do not live in nursing or care homes, the wait to get a vaccine is a matter of life and death.
Louis Hopkins suffers from Myotonic Dystrophy, a genetic disorder that causes progressive muscle weakness, including in respiratory muscles. Hopkins relies on a constant stream of oxygen to survive.