Douglas County reported 8,581 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of 11 cases since Monday. In Douglas County, 8,190 out of the 8,581 cases are inacti
Clockwise from top left, panelists Jennifer Schrimsher, Ruaa Hassaballa, Tiffany Lewis and Kathy Colson are pictured during a virtual COVID-19 panel discussion on Feb. 23.
As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues, local health leaders say that prioritizing people for the shots isn’t as simple as it looks, and that the size of the county’s weekly allocations depends on how quickly it distributes the shots it has.
In a virtual panel discussion about testing, vaccination and equity on Tuesday night, Brian Bradfield, associate vice president of ancillary services at LMH Health, discussed the importance of timely vaccine distribution in response to a question about subprioritization within the different groups being vaccinated as part of Phase 2.
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A sign points to LMH Health s new drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination center on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020.
Douglas County’s Unified Command will host its second virtual COVID-19 panel discussion surrounding the topics of testing, vaccination and equity at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The panelists are Jennifer Schrimsher, an infectious disease doctor at LMH Health; Ruaa Hassaballa, the COVID-19 testing equity project manager at Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health; Tiffany Lewis, chief operations officer at Heartland Community Health Center; Brian Bradfield, associate vice president of ancillary services at LMH Health; and Kathy Colson, a retired public health nurse who began working for the health department during the pandemic. Alex Kimball Williams, health equity planner with Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, will moderate the event. In addition to the discussion on testing, vaccinations and equity, the event will provide some information about loc
Douglas County has averaged about 14 new COVID-19 cases per day over the last 14 days, which is the lowest average the county has seen since mid-August.