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Kansas News Service Demand for COVID vaccines has declined across rural Kansas since late March. 62 counties skipped their vaccine allocations from the state this week. Sixty-two Kansas Counties rejected their weekly allocations of COVID-19 vaccines from the state this week even though only roughly 34% of Kansans have received at least one shot. Even as Kansas remains far from reaching the coveted public health standard of herd immunity against COVID-19 — essentially starving off the viru...

Abigail Censky, Kansas News Service photo by: David Condos/Kansas News Service Barton County Health Director Karen Winkelman is pictured recently at a drive-thru vaccine clinic in Great Bend. 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 just turned down their weekly allotment of vaccine doses. Not long ago, local health offici...

Fighting vaccine hesitancy is next key battle of COVID-19 pandemic Nearly 1 in 5 are hesitant to get shot in Miami-Dade and Broward Tags:  MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – With every American 16 and older now eligible for a vaccine nationwide — and half of U.S. adults already receiving at least one COVID-19 shot — the key conversation in battling the pandemic shifts to vaccine hesitancy. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that nearly 19% of people in Miami-Dade are hesit...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, left, Department of Health and Human Services Chief Science Officer for COVID Response David Kessler, center, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, right, talk before the ... more > By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Thursday, April 15, 2021 President Biden’s health officials lobbied ...

How the US hit its vaccine stride CNN 1 hr ago By Amanda Sealy, CNN © Win McNamee/Getty Images SEVERN, MARYLAND - MARCH 23: Maryland residents receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine through the Anne Arundel County Department of Health at a community COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Metropolitan United Methodist Church March 23, 2021 in Severn, Maryland. Nearly 2.4 million vaccines have been administered in the state of Maryland to date, representing just over 20 percent of ...

Andrea Palm, tapped as No. 2 at HHS, has been vilified by Wisconsin Republicans. But her state’s approach to covid-19 vaccinations is working.

How Wisconsin turned around its lagging vaccination program — and buoyed a Biden health pick Isaac Stanley-Becker, Dan Diamond © Scott Bauer/AP Andrea Palm, formerly secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, speaks to reporters in 2019. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File) When President Biden announced in January that he would make Wisconsin’s top health official his No. 2 at the Department of Health and Human Services, the state seemed like a poor model...

It seemed like the vaccine would take up to a year to arrive. Back in January, even though two COVID-19 mRNA vaccines had been authorized for emergency use and…

Nearly everyone who got their first dose of a two-shot COVID-19 vaccine got their second dose within the recommended window, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Only a small number of people who get their first shot of the Pfizer / BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine don’t get their second dose, CDC data shows. Experts were worried there would be a gap.