Johnson County Health Director reflects on anniversary of COVID-19 reaching the Kansas City metro
On March 7th, 2020, officials of the Johnson County government announced the first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 in the Kansas City Metro. Share Updated: 11:35 PM CST Mar 7, 2021
Johnson County Health Director reflects on anniversary of COVID-19 reaching the Kansas City metro
On March 7th, 2020, officials of the Johnson County government announced the first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 in the Kansas City Metro. Share Updated: 11:35 PM CST Mar 7, 2021
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Show Transcript NO WORD ON WHAT STARTED THAT FIRE. TODAY MARKS ONE YEAR SINCE THE KANSAS CITY METRO SAW ITS FIRST CASE OF THE CORONAVIRUS SINCE THEN THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 160,000 CASES AND MORE THAN 2,200 DEATHS IN OUR NINE COUNTY AREA. KMBC9S, BIANCA BELTRAN SPOKE TO JOHNSON COUNTY’S HEALTH DIRECTOR ABOUT THEIR RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC AND WHERE WE STAND ONE YEAR
JOCO to administer thousands more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine this week
As of last Wednesday, 67,400 doses of the vaccine were administered countywide Share Updated: 6:42 PM CST Mar 1, 2021
As of last Wednesday, 67,400 doses of the vaccine were administered countywide Share Updated: 6:42 PM CST Mar 1, 2021
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Show Transcript THAT AMOUNT. I REFUSING TO ACCEPT THE CURRENT RATE. SO I’M HOPING THAT WE HAVE MORE VACCINE. VACCIN ATED, DR. ARREOLA SAYS THAT THE RATE JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS IS RECEIVING VACCINES. IT WOULD LIKELY TAKE MORE THAN A YEAR TO VACCINATE EVERY RESIDENT IN LINE. WE REMAIN OPTIMISTIC. WE UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE CHALLENGES AND CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE STATE. BUT WE ALSO CONTINUE TO TELL OUR RESIDENTS. MISSION AND THAT’S WE GET MORE VACCINE WITH. HE ADDS THE COUNTY IS WORKING TO GET SHOTS INTO ARMS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AS OF LAST WEDNESDAY COUNTY WIDE 67,400 DOSES OF THE VACCINE WERE ADMINISTERED THIS WEEK. THE PL
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“How can a 65-year-old be as vulnerable as a 90-year-old?”
That’s the question Cheryl Fruetel asked Wednesday morning in a phone interview with the Journal-World. Her parents, who are 89 and 86 years old, had not yet received COVID-19 vaccines in Douglas County. And they’d been waiting for over a month.
Fruetel, who lives in Richmond, Va., is 65 years old herself. People ages 65 and older qualify to receive a vaccine as part of Phase 2 of Kansas’ vaccine distribution process. But Fruetel wondered why the older members of that population had not been given priority over the younger ones.
“If Unified Command’s mission is to protect citizens, why aren’t they protecting the most vulnerable?” Fruetel asked.