Kansas college paying staff $250 to get COVID-19 vaccines
April 12, 2021
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Drive-thru vaccinations are given in a building on the Douglas County Fair Grounds in Lawrence, Kan., Wednesday, March 17, 2021. The fair grounds serves as a mass COVID-19 vaccination location.Orlin Wagner/AP
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) Kansas largest community college is paying staff members to get COVID-19 vaccinations, and one of the state s largest public school districts is making in-home coronavirus testing kits available to students who want them.
Johnson County Community College is paying employees $250 to get inoculated in the hopes of bringing more students back to campus in the fall, KMBC-TV reported. Spokesperson Chris Gray said the college sees it as “an innovative way to reinforce healthy decisions.”
Kansas county chooses not to observe COVID emergency
DION LEFLER and MICHAEL STAVOLA, The Wichita Eagle
March 20, 2021
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The Chautauqua County Commission and staff meet in a small room, unmasked, on Monday, March 8, 2021, in Sedan, Kan. This bucolic and remote county, nestled on the Oklahoma border 100 highway miles southeast of Wichita, is the only place in Kansas that isn’t under a COVID disaster emergency declaration, according to the Kansas Association of Counties. (Dion Lefler/The Wichita Eagle via AP)Dion Lefler/AP
SEDAN, Kan. (AP) Greetings from Chautauqua, the only county in Kansas where COVID-19 isn’t an emergency.