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Officials in Finney County in western Kansas continue to accept COVID-19 vaccine shipments and have held inoculation efforts like this one in Garden City. But elsewhere across rural Kansas, demand for COVID vaccines has declined since late March. Sixty-two counties skipped their vaccine allocations from the state this week. Photo credit David Condos/Kansas News Service.
Even as Kansas remains far from reaching the coveted public health standard of herd immunity against COVID-19 essentially starving off the virus because it runs out of vulnerable bodies more than 60 counties recently turned down their weekly allotment of vaccine doses from the state.