It was quite a night, he said. It was just about the most rewarding volunteer thing I ve ever done.
But he acknowledged that he had quickly achieved his goal: An hour into it, I looked at the medic and said, Could you just give me the vaccine now? She said sure.
Technically, the only people qualified to receive the vaccine are in groups 1A or 1B. The first group includes health care workers and nursing-home residents, but the state and Maricopa County have differed on 1B criteria. State sites vaccinate people 65 and older, K-12 educators, college employees, and law enforcement and corrections officers; county sites limit shots to people 75 and older and haven t included college employees.
Children are being hospitalized for COVID-19 at record numbers in Arizona, according to a Banner Health spokesperson on Jan. 17. She backs up her claim with data that looked at trending numbers for several months in 2020.
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