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Hundreds of Valley youth receive first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at One Community Initiative event in South Phoenix More than 600 appointments filled at C.O. Greenfield Elementary School in the Roosevelt School District on the first day kids 12-15 could receive the vaccine. Author: Josh Sanders (KPNX) Updated: 10:32 PM MST May 13, 2021 PHOENIX — Behind 12-year-old Ethan Crystals mask was his smile. He was finally going to receive his first dose of Pfizers Covi...

Event in South Phoenix offers underserved youth a chance to get vaccinated against COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccination event for underserved youth held in South Phoenix The event, which took place at an elementary school near Baseline Road and 7th Street, was held as children ages 12 to 15 are now eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccination. PHOENIX - As children ages 12 through 15 are eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19, community partners in Phoenix are targeting underserved youth who want to ...

Organizations hold COVID-19 vaccination events for underserved, disability communities BrieAnna J. Frank and Audrey Jensen, Arizona Republic 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 ...

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 schools gym, minutes after getting her first and only dose of the Johnson & Johnson...

Jan 19, 2021 Cesar Neyoy/The Yuma Sun via AP Staff from Campesinos goes from house to house to offer free COVID-19 tests on the second day of the ASU and Equality Health Foundation pilot program in San Luis, Ariz. during the ASU and Equality Health Foundation pilot program on Friday, Jan. 15. PHOENIX (AP) — Exhausted nurses in rural Yuma, Arizona, regularly send COVID-19 patients on a long helicopter ride to Phoenix when they don’t have enough staff. The so-called winter lettuce capital of ...

Military nurses, COVID-19 tests coming to help hard-hit Yuma area Anita Snow Exhausted nurses in rural Yuma regularly send COVID-19 patients on a long helicopter ride to Phoenix when they dont have enough staff. The so-called winter lettuce capital of the U.S. also has lagged on coronavirus testing in heavily Hispanic neighborhoods and just ran out of vaccines.  But some support is coming from military nurses and a new wave of free tests for farmworkers and the elderly in Yuma County — the h...

PHOENIX (AP) — Exhausted nurses in rural Yuma, Arizona, regularly send COVID-19...