Polis: Colorado will get thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses over next 3 weeks Molly Bohannon, Fort Collins Coloradoan
1st long-term care staff, residents in Northern Colorado receive COVID-19 vaccine
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Colorado will be getting thousands more doses of COVID-19 vaccines each week over the next three weeks, Gov. Jared Polis announced during a news conference Tuesday.
Polis said he was told earlier in the day on a call with the White House that Colorado would receive 27,000 additional doses over the next three weeks, or approximately 9,000 per week. He also announced a new federal program in which community health clinics can receive doses directly from the federal government.
Phone calls that end with busy signals or are never answered, websites that require computers, smartphones, email addresses and internet connectivity to access: That’s how Colorado asked residents age 70 and older to register and schedule appointments for COVID-19 vaccines when they were made a priority in January.
While many of those eligible for a vaccine managed to navigate the system and get their first doses of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, others are still trying to figure out when and where they’ll be able to get a potentially life-saving vaccine.
Joyce Metier, 92, said she doesn t have a computer anymore and isn t always sure what the instructions are asking her to do when she calls into phone numbers that are answered by automated attendants. And she generally doesn t answer phone calls from numbers she doesn t recognize.