Unvaccinated Denver woman turned away from getting the COVID-19 shot after records error
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DENVER â It stands to reason most people remember if they ve been vaccinated for COVID-19 this year. I should know if I ve had the COVID shot or not, said Georgia Lemos, who had not received the vaccine. After my neighbor died from COVID, I thought last week I better get my shot.
But try telling that to the system. I felt like they wasn t even acknowledging me as a human being, she said.
Jul 19, 2021
Horns blared and drums pounded a constant beat as fans of the Mexican national soccer team gathered recently at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver for a high-profile international tournament.
But the sounds were muted inside a mobile medical RV parked near the stadium, and the tone was professional. During halftime of Mexico’s game against the U.S., soccer fan Oscar Felipe Sanchez rolled up his sleeve to receive the one-dose covid-19 vaccine.
Sanchez is a house painter in Colorado Springs. After getting sick with covid a few months ago, he thought he should get the vaccine. But because of the illness, he was advised to wait a few weeks before getting the shot. Asked if he’s glad he got it, Sanchez answered through a translator: “Yes! He’s more trusting to go out.”
Denver voters may soon choose whether to let the city take out a $400 million bond to fund numerous infrastructure projects as part of a long-term COVID-19 recovery plan.
The city announced the proposed general obligation (GO) bond in April and the Denver City Council is set to begin voting on the proposal later this month. If approved by council and the mayor, voters will see the bond on the ballot in November.
The proposed bond is one of Denverâs many COVID-19 relief efforts. The Department of Finance says there is still $375 million left from the cityâs last general obligation bond Elevate Denver which passed in 2017.
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Gina Cammarata gets the first round of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Denver Indian Center, part of the second wave of prioritized shots in the city. Jan. 8, 2020.
All along the Front Range during the pandemic, demographics drew lines between sickness and health.
Longtime Denver physician Dr. Terri Richardson, with the Colorado Black Health Collaborative, said troubling trends emerged in the earliest days of the pandemic.
“Everything, you know, it goes along the social, economic and people of color lines,” said Richardson, a recently retired internist with Kaiser Permanente. “The stories are when it was the COVID infections and testing, when it was a vaccine, the maps all look the same. You could have just superimposed all the maps and they looked the same.”