Advocacy group wants disabled community to get vaccine sooner COVID vaccine and disabilities By Jasmine Ramirez | February 17, 2021 at 6:02 PM MST - Updated February 17 at 7:10 PM TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - People with disabilities, and some advocacy groups who represent them, are raising concerns about when and how they will receive the vaccine. “I can’t drive, I can’t even stand up,” said 70-year-old John Woods. “My wife is my caregiver.” Woods is a Tucsonan who lives with muscular dystrophy and is bound to a wheelchair He is now eligible to receive the vaccine, not because he is disabled, but because of his age group. His next hurdle is finding a way to get to a vaccination site.