Finney County ahead of state average on first doses
The Finney County Health Department s COVID-19 vaccination site will be moved back from the Mass Vaccination Clinic at the Finney County Fairgrounds to the Health Department in the coming weeks.
Colleen Drees, Finney County Health Department director, gave an update on the status of COVID-19 vaccinations at the Finney County Commission s regular meeting Monday.
As of Monday morning, the Health Department has given 15,130 COVID-19 vaccines have been given, with approximately 8,580 being first doses and 6,550 being second doses, Drees said. The state is currently calculating 35% of Kansans who have received a first dose thus far, she said. We re estimating approximately 50% of our currently eligible population in Finney County have received at least a first dose, so we are ahead of the rest of the state and certainly ahead of the nation.
Southwest Kansas COVID-19 update
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LiveWell Finney County s COVID-19 testing and vaccine event in East Garden Village Thursday was a success.
Callie Dyer, executive director of LiveWell Finney County, said the event went really well, plenty of people turned out, got vaccines and got tested. We re very pleased with the turnout and with the comments that we re hearing, she said.
LiveWell had 500 shots to give out and 700 saliva COVID tests. The event was free and did not require any identification.
Dyer said the reason for the event is LiveWell s mission, health for all in the community. We want to be able to take stuff to the people and this is part of what we do. Not everybody has access, and being able to have access to care is real important to us, she said. One way for them to get access is to take it to them.