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62 Kansas counties turn down vaccine doses as demand wanes
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62 Kansas counties turn down vaccine doses as demand wanes
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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.
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 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 officials struggled to get enough doses for people clamoring for protection in a pandemic. Now they’re straining to get people willing to take their shots and sorting out how to make the most of doses given out to smaller groups.