When can you get the COVID vaccine in Kansas City? Is it free? Here s what to know Lisa Gutierrez, The Kansas City Star
Dec. 16 Every adult in America will soon have to decide: Do I get the COVID-19 vaccine?
On Monday, Kansas City health care workers began getting Pfizer-BioNTech shots. Nursing homes expect to hear any day now that doses are heading their way for employees and residents.
Many people won t get their turn until the spring. Should they do it?
Federal and state health officials say absolutely. But they know people have questions and doubts.
Here are some answers, with information from the Missouri health department, University of Kansas Health System, Truman Medical Centers/University Health and the Mayo Clinic.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice became one of the first top elected officials in the country to receive a coronavirus shot on Monday evening, even though the state’s rollout is supposed to prioritize giving the highly sought-after vaccines to health care workers and people in long-term care centers.
The 69-year-old Republican governor said he wanted to demonstrate confidence in the vaccine’s safety.
“It’s as safe as can be,” Justice said at the statehouse room where he hosts regular news conferences. Wearing a mask, he received a jab in his right arm from a state pharmacy board official and promptly received an adhesive bandage and a sticker. Four other top state officials, including the health officer and head of the National Guard, next rolled up their sleeves and also received shots live on camera.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice became one of the first top elected officials in the country to receive a coronavirus shot on Monday evening, even though the state’s rollout is supposed to prioritize giving the highly sought-after vaccines to health care workers and people in long-term care centers.
The 69-year-old Republican governor said he wanted to demonstrate confidence in the vaccine’s safety.
“It’s as safe as can be,” Justice said at the statehouse room where he hosts regular news conferences. Wearing a mask, he received a jab in his right arm from a state pharmacy board official and promptly received an adhesive bandage and a sticker. Four other top state officials, including the health officer and head of the National Guard, next rolled up their sleeves and also received shots live on camera.
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Kansas officials discuss vaccine next steps
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Dr. Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, joined a daily briefing on Tuesday with doctors from the University of Kansas Health System to discuss the next steps for vaccine distribution in the state.
Norman said that as more shipments of the vaccines arrive, there will be a wider distribution across the state. The first wave will include health care workers and those in nursing homes.
Health care workers in Missouri get coronavirus vaccine
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FILE - This undated file photo issued by the University of Oxford on Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, shows of vial of coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, in Oxford, England. (University of Oxford/John Cairns via AP, File)
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Health care workers in both of Missouriâs urban areas have received doses of the coronavirus vaccine â the first people in the state outside of clinical trial participants to be vaccinated.
Thousands of other medical workers across the state will soon follow now that vaccinations began Monday at Truman Medical Centers/University Health in Kansas City, Missouri, and at the Mercy hospital system in the St. Louis area.