Gov. Jared Polis needed a dry-erase board and some math skills on Friday as he attempted to clarify Colorado’s current vaccine distribution situation in
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.
Fort Collins Coloradoan
Colorado is administering COVID-19 vaccines to those ages 70 and older as fast as it is receiving them, Gov. Jared Polis said Tuesday.
The only holdup to vaccinating more people faster, the governor said during a news conference, is the supply the state is receiving from the federal government.
Colorado is receiving about 70,000 vaccine doses each week, Polis said, and has the capability to administer twice that many if, and when, additional doses become available.
“We aim to use every dose, every week,” Polis said.
Colorado has more than 530,000 residents ages 70 and older, Polis said, and at the current rate of vaccination, all of them who want the vaccine should be able to receive their first dose by the end of February. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which Colorado receives a roughly equal supply of each week from the federal government, require two doses given three to four weeks apart to achieve the maximum rate of protection from COVID