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Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff arrive at Maria Empanada, Tuesday March 16, 2021, in Denver.
Vice President Kamala Harris stopped in Colorado Tuesday as part of the Biden Administration’s “Help is Here” tour touting the benefits of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill.
During a listening session at the restaurant Maria Empanada in Denver, Harris stressed the importance of supporting small businesses, calling them the “heartbeat of every community.”
“It is our small businesses that hire from the community, that uplift the community,” she said.
Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, took notes as business leaders spoke of their struggles during this past year.
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.
Salud Family Health Centers to open pop-up vaccination clinic Thursday in Aurora
Clinic hopes to vaccinate 500 Coloradans over the age of 70 in 2 days
Sloan Dickey
and last updated 2021-01-13 19:07:29-05
AURORA, Colo. Salud Family Health Centers are teaming up Thursday with UCHealth and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to get COVID-19 vaccines to 500 Coloradans over the age of 70. The organization will construct a pop-up vaccine clinic in Aurora. It is a great model of hour our community can work together to get our citizens vaccinated, said John Santistevan, president of Salud Family Health Centers in Colorado. It is a very large network of serving the underserved.