Colorado offering grants to primary care doctors in push to administer more COVID vaccines

Colorado volition connection grants to superior attraction physicians to assistance them administer COVID-19 vaccines to residents, Gov. Jared Polis announced Thursday.

The politician offered fewer details astir however the programme volition work, but did accidental the archetypal grants volition scope betwixt $50,000 and $120,000 per enrolled practice, with further compensation possible.

For immoderate radical who are hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine, “the astir meaningful speech they tin person is with their doctor,” Polis said during a quality briefing. “They are accustomed, of course, to taking attraction proposal from their doctor.”

Primary attraction practices tin use for the programme starting Thursday and done the extremity of November. They volition beryllium approved connected a rolling basis. Family practices, backstage practices, pediatrician groups and different doctors suffice for the grants, Polis said.

“By making it easier for physicians successful clinics and offices crossed the authorities to administer the escaped COVID-19 vaccines, we mightiness not lone boost our assemblage immunity to the virus, but besides statesman to marque these captious wellness attraction connections for much Coloradans,” authorities Rep. Yadira Caraveo, tri-chair of the Colorado Vaccine Equity Taskforce, said successful a statement.

The assistance tin beryllium utilized for hiring a impermanent unit subordinate to assistance with scheduling appointments oregon to bash assemblage outreach, Polis said.

So far, 67.6% of eligible Coloradans are afloat vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to the authorities wellness department.