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Pharmacy clinical manager Dr. Suzanne May holds a syringe of COVID-19 vaccine at North Suburban Medical Center in Thornton, Dec. 17, 2020.
Kenny Maestas works with the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition and has been collaborating with the state on these issues. Maestas joined the state s COVID-19 health equity panel in April, which was phased out earlier this fall. He s now working with the state on the vaccine rollout plan.
Maestas said he s been in the hospital on a ventilator before, and the possibility that there could have been a ventilator shortage encouraged him to get involved. If there was gonna be a shortage of ventilators in rural Colorado, I wanted to know when and where, said Maestas, who lives in Prowers County. I m a single dad, I got a 16 year-old son that lives with me, and that I gotta take care of for a long, long time yet.