High risk people younger than 65 need covid vaccinations too
Until recently your announced policy would have let persons under 65 but high risk qualify for vaccination when over-65 persons qualified. I care for someone who needs it a lot more than persons being vaccinated now but she's 64. She's had 4 kidney transplants and has been on immunosuppressants for 45 years. I'm concerned you're focusing on populations you can glamorize in the news - like your pop up events - and forgetting who needs it most.
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I want to see the number of cases of those 55+ who you say make up 90% of Covid deaths in AZ live in single family homes, not in a nursing home or communal/ congregated setting. Again, you have set back High Risk patients that do live in a communal/congregated setting for people who may not be as at risk as a younger person who has Heart, Lung,Blood or countless other illnesses that could make it just as hard or harder for them to survive getting Covid as anybody 55 +.. And you make these choices without little care as to how isolation affects their mental well-being or how it can make their preexisting conditions worse because they are in more danger living in communal setting and moving is just another risk most cannot chance until vaccinations provide some protection.