103-Year-Old Coloradan Among Thousands Vaccinated At Coors Field Event

Over the weekend, Colorado put on the state's largest mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic to date.

Among the 10,000 seniors who received a dose of the vaccine was 103-year-old Harold "Tommy" Thompson.

The two COVID-19 vaccination events occurred on Saturday and Sunday (January 30 - 31) in the parking lots near Coors Field.

Thompson had a scheduled appointment to receive the vaccine on Sunday along with 5,000 other patients. He was accompanied to the drive-thru clinic by his family who he lives with in Westminster.

"We have been waiting for this for over a year," his daughter Eileen Meis told CBS4. "Now that we have this first shot, we're just so excited to get him out and about. He thought we were torturing him keeping him inside."

According to his family, this is Thompson's second time living through a pandemic. When he was a child in Egypt, Mississippi his mother practiced social distancing during the flu pandemic.

"He said even when he was 2 or 3, his first memories were of his mother not letting anyone past the gate to help keep them from getting sick," his son-in-law Kevin Meis said.

When he grew up, Thompson played college football at Mississippi State University and fixed planes during World War II. Later he managed manufacturing plants and raised a family.

Thompson is scheduled to get the second dose of the vaccine in three weeks.

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