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Vaccination Outreach Shifts as Demand Drops in Some States
Composer Harold O Neal plays piano as people wait out their post-vaccination observation period at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. Nationwide, state and local health agencies are coming up with a variety of new strategies to persuade people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Kathy Willens
The Associated Press
Four months into the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history, roughly half of all adult Americans have received at least one shot against COVID-19 and the nation is vaccinating more than 3 million people daily.
But those nationwide averages belie looming standstills in pockets of the country where people aren’t showing up for appointments and vaccines are piling up in refrigerators.
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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 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.
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 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.
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