Coloradans over 65, educators and childcare workers can begin receiving COVID-19 vaccines Feb. 8, under a new phased approach announced by Gov. Jared Polis Friday. 

Vaccines are currently only available to people 70 and older, healthcare workers and first responders, who are in phase 1A and the newly-named Phase 1B.1.  The state’s goal is still to vaccinate 70 percent of people over 70, about 393,639 people, by the end of February.

Polis said 65- to 69-year-olds have been added to Phase ...