{"id":1828,"date":"2021-10-05T14:57:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2021-10-05T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:57:32","slug":"troy-university-joins-forces-with-apdh-to-kick-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/10\/05\/troy-university-joins-forces-with-apdh-to-kick-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University joins forces with APDH to &#8220;Kick COVID-19&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a> is partnering with the <a href=\"http:\/\/adph.org\">Alabama Department of Public Health<\/a> for the statewide &#8220;Kick COVID&#8221; program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program offers COVID vaccinations as well as testing at different universities&#8217; home football games around the state where students and fans can do their part in kicking COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What they&#8217;re doing is they&#8217;re going to each of these campuses on a game day and they&#8217;re doing a testing\/vaccine clinic on the campuses in conjunction with the football game,&#8221; says Dean of Students Herb Reeves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who decide to participate in the Kick COVID program can also receive some free gear from their college bookstore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If  you have been vaccinated fourteen days prior to your game day or seven days after you can register for your 75 dollar bookstore gift card at <a href=\"http:\/\/kickcovid19.com\">kickcovid19.com<\/a> or if you visit the ADPH tent on game day to receive your first or second dose of the COVID vaccine and your 75 dollar gift card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The goal here is certainly to increase the number of vaccinated people we have across the state of Alabama, across the United States as a whole, but primarily for the state of Alabama so this is an incentive and a program to try to get more people vaccinated,&#8221; says Reeves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Claudia&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, Troy University is partnering with the Alabama Department of Public Health for the statewide &#8220;Kick COVID&#8221; program.<\/p>\n<p>The program offers COVID vaccinations as well as testing at different universities&#8217; home football games around the state where students and fans can do their part in kicking COVID.<\/p>\n<p>What they&#8217;re doing is they&#8217;re going to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/10\/05\/troy-university-joins-forces-with-apdh-to-kick-covid-19\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[696,697,103,241,37,399,695],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adph","tag-alabama-department-of-public-health","tag-claudia-peppenhorst","tag-covid-vaccinations","tag-covid-19","tag-herb-reeves","tag-kick-covid-19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}