Get Your Ass Vaccinated, Colorado!

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by: Colorado Pols

Colorado Public Radio reports on the first day of significantly expanded eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado as “Phase 1B.4” kicks off, making everyone over 50 and many more essential workers and qualifying patients ready to jab:

On Friday, the last sub-group of Phase 1B becomes eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. Then, the general public can start getting the vaccine, which Gov. Jared Polis said will start in April.

The last 1B subgroup includes anyone in Colorado who is 50 or older as well as frontline workers in higher education, food service, journalism, manufacturing, public transit, public health, human services, faith communities, some state and local government divisions, and services to homeless populations.

The state also expanded the qualifications for people with high-risk medical conditions starting Friday. People who have one high-risk condition are now eligible…

By all accounts available appointments from private vaccine providers are filling up rapidly, but the first place to check on where you can get your vaccination is the state COVID-19 information portal, followed by the VaccineFinder tool. In addition, Centura Health just today opened up registration for their new mass vaccination sites across the state, and we’re hearing positive feedback about people successfully scheduling their appointments there.

Gov. Jared Polis has promised vaccines for the entire general public by the middle of next month. It’s a bit of a mad dash right now to snag available appointments through the various private signup tools, a situation comparable to scoring sought-after tickets to a sports event or rock concert. Those of you privileged enough to be able to spend time hunting for a shot should do so as soon as possible, and everyone else will hopefully not be far behind.

It’s how we beat this thing, folks. Present your own arm as soon as you possibly can.

12 thoughts on “Get Your Ass Vaccinated, Colorado!”

davebarnes says:

March 19, 2021 at 12:28 pm

Trophy wife is scheduled for #1 tomorrow.

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JeffcoDemo says:

March 19, 2021 at 12:41 pm

Wifey and I got the 30th at Dicks.

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gertie97 says:

March 19, 2021 at 1:15 pm

We get our second shots the middle of next week.

Grand Junction is a tough nut to crack. A neighbor who had a mild case of the coronavirus in the fall won't get the vaccine because, she says, of the Democrats plot to alter our DNA. She is otherwise a rational person. Another woman I know won't get it because she's had bad reaction to flu shots. A third, a trumpie, says she doesn't trust it. That her hero has taken it doesn't matter.

Sigh.

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MichaelBowman says:

March 19, 2021 at 1:23 pm

I'm doing some agriculturally-related work in Cali this month so I was able to get my first shot here (Moderna). Had a pretty bad case of chills and a headache for about 18 hours. Given I had a pretty bad case of COVID in December and thought I might weather the first shot without any incident.

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1. ajb says:
  
  March 19, 2021 at 2:54 pm
  
  I just had a sore arm after my first Moderna shot. I'm 2 weeks out for my second. I've heard that the second shot can kick your butt for a couple of days. Here's hoping…
  
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  1. MichaelBowman says:
    
    March 19, 2021 at 3:42 pm
    
    A number of the people I'm working with right now had a pretty miserable 24-36 hours after the second shot. My arm was pretty sore for about 36 hours.
    
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CDW says:

March 20, 2021 at 8:49 am

I have relatives who live in western NY. They were able to schedule their shots through a state-wide database a month before they became eligible. They were vaccinated with their first Pfizer shots last week by an emt and doctors were standing by for one of them who has suffered anaphylaxis in the past. (Fortunately she didn't need them) Individual cubicles were set up in a convention center and FEMA was involved. Cuomo is doing something right.

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1. Diogenesdemar says:
  
  March 20, 2021 at 10:04 am
  
  Nebraska, freakin’ Nebraska, is similar — they’re doing the same at a county/regional health department level — one (website or phone call) and done. (No searching and checking myriad hospitals, pharmacies, etc. and exposing personal information on multiple websites — just so that these companies can advertise and market ~~products and services~~ crap to you later.) The county coordinates keeping track of when you become eligible, and then when you do contacts you to arrange appointmenting, at your convenience, among the various provider locations.
  
  Colorado appears to have chosen the most confusing, least efficient, potentially hackable, duplicative, inconvenient, and scammable — did I say “private commercial enterprise”? — method imaginable?
  
  For all the good this state has done managing most every facet of this cluster-pandemic, we’ve sure screwed the pooch on making it easy and convenient to get ~~liberal mind-control DNA~~ vaccines into peoples arms . . .
  
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  1. CDW says:
    
    March 20, 2021 at 10:42 am
    
    Exactly. I blame Colorado's vaccination fiasco on Polis' libertarian tendencies. Either that, or he's a poor manager in general.
    
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    1. Diogenesdemar says:
      
      March 20, 2021 at 10:51 am
      
      Beware any liberal who fears being tagged as "a liberal" . . .
      
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  2. MichaelBowman says:
    
    March 20, 2021 at 11:55 am
    
    Nebraska, where you’d pry their ~~guns~~ socialist public power utility from their cold. dead. hands.
    
    Nebraska prides itself on being the only all public power state in the nation.
    
    That means every electric utility is owned by the public and not by private corporations. The end result has been that its citizens pay some of the lowest rates and have a voice in how their electric utilities are run.
    
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  3. Blackie says:
    
    March 22, 2021 at 4:22 pm
    
    I had been looking for well over a month for a location to get covid shots, it fell into my grubby little hands this morning!
    
    I'll be getting the first Pfitzer shot Thursday at the Malley Center in Englewood via Tri-County Health. And the second 28 days later!
    
    I had to make an appointment but it was no problem.
    
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