Jefferson County offering walk-up vaccinations at local schools
Goal is to vaccinate students before summer break
Jefferson County Public Health and JeffCo Public Schools are teaming up to offer drive-up or walk-up vaccinations at several schools.
and last updated 2021-05-24 09:51:48-04
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. â Jefferson County Public Health and JeffCo Public Schools are teaming up to offer drive-up or walk-up vaccinations at several schools.
The vaccines are available to children 12 and older, as well as adults in the community. No registration is required.
A full list of vaccination sites at schools and community locations can be found here.
Christine Billings, head of the office of pandemic response for Jefferson County Public Health, said the goal is to vaccinate students before they leave for the summer.
With Wednesday’s approval, the county can start vaccinating kids as early as this week. Work is already being done to set up youth-specific vaccine clinics.
“This is a much smaller population and we’ve got a much bigger amount of vaccine this time around, and so we do not expect to have to pick and choose who will get the vaccine this time around, Dr. Earl Stoddard from the Montgomery County Department of Human Services said.
Some parents jumped the gun and brought their children to get their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine Wednesday only to be turned away.