Arizonans with disabilities get COVID vaccinations, thanks to group effort
April 29, 2021
Launched in Phoenix in 1981, Ability360 serves people with disabilities, including assistance with independent living or employment, peer support and mentorship, home care, mental health services and adaptive sports and fitness programs. This weekend, the group is holding a second vaccination event for Arizonans living with disabilities. (Photo by Travis Robertson/Cronkite News)
The state is partnering with such groups as Ability360 and The Arc to get COVID-19 vaccinations to people with intellectual or developmental disabilities and their relatives and caregivers. (Photo by Travis Robertson/Cronkite News)
More than 1,600 people got their first COVID-19 vaccinations at an April event targeting an especially vulnerable population – those with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Second doses were scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. (Photo by Travis Robertson/Cronkite News)
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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