Delta variant intensifies vaccination efforts in Douglas County, Kansas
4 cases of the highly contagious variant have been confirmed in the last month. Share Updated: 6:02 PM CDT Jun 30, 2021
4 cases of the highly contagious variant have been confirmed in the last month. Share Updated: 6:02 PM CDT Jun 30, 2021
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Show Transcript DELTA VARIANT NOW POSING A THREAT. THIS IS OF THE DELTA VARIANT HAVE BEEN. CONFIRMED IN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN THE LAST MONTH THE DELTA VARIAN IS THE BIG CONCERN RIGHT NOW. JUST GIVEN WHAT WE’VE SEEN IN OTHER COMMUNITIES HEALTH LEADERS SAY EVEN WITH VACCINATION RATES HIGHER TNHA THE STATE AND NATIONAL AVERAGE. IT SHOWS THE COUNTY IS NOT IMMUNE. IT JUST TAKES A FEW PEOPLE TO GET AN OUTBREAK AND IT TAKES YOU KNOW FROM THERE IT CAN REALLY HALT THE COMMUNITY CAN LEAD US TO HAVE TO CLOSE THINGS BACK DOWN ALTHOHUG OVERALL 52% OF THE COUNTY IS FULLY VACCINATED. NOT EVERY PULOPATION IS THERE WE’RE ALSO REALLY COGNIZANT
There is no shortage of opportunities to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Wichita, with health officials in Sedgwick County setting up a series of mass vaccination sites, with events at public libraries, the county extension office and even the city s downtown basketball arena. When I m talking to the nurses . they ll say Maggie, no, we only saw three or four Black folks today, Thompson said. One lady said I ve probably given a hundred shots and I had one Black man. And that s when I thought We need to do something about this. What is it going to take?
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A sign at the entrance to Haskell Indian Nations University is shown Friday, Aug. 5, 2016.
Haskell Indian Nations University’s new Hiawatha Center for Justice is hosting an online forum Thursday about the Black American experience.
Kevin Willmott, an Academy-Award winning screenwriter and University of Kansas film and media studies professor, will host a discussion about the past and present injustices Black Americans face, and what steps can be taken to create institutions that embrace systemic justice. Willmott will be joined by two other panelists: Randal Jelks, an award-winning author and KU professor of American Studies and African and African-American Studies, and Alex Kimball Williams, a community activist and health equity planner with Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health.
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A sign points to LMH Health s new drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination center on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020.
Douglas County’s Unified Command will host its second virtual COVID-19 panel discussion surrounding the topics of testing, vaccination and equity at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The panelists are Jennifer Schrimsher, an infectious disease doctor at LMH Health; Ruaa Hassaballa, the COVID-19 testing equity project manager at Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health; Tiffany Lewis, chief operations officer at Heartland Community Health Center; Brian Bradfield, associate vice president of ancillary services at LMH Health; and Kathy Colson, a retired public health nurse who began working for the health department during the pandemic. Alex Kimball Williams, health equity planner with Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, will moderate the event. In addition to the discussion on testing, vaccinations and equity, the event will provide some information about loc
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LMH Health pharmacy technician Priscilla Johnson receives a COVID-19 vaccine from her son Tyler Johnson, who is a pharmacy student intern in the LMH Health inpatient pharmacy.
When Priscilla Johnson, LMH Health pharmacy technician in the oncology pharmacy department, rolled up her sleeve to receive a COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 19, a familiar face was preparing the needle her son Tyler Johnson.
“Honestly, it was a blessed moment for me. With my own son giving me my vaccine, I was able to experience his education firsthand,” she said. “He explained things very well to me and encouraged me to get the correct information. I had no pain with the initial shot. I had some soreness later at the injection site, and I was a bit tired the first day. But I had no other symptoms or reactions.”