photo by: Ashley Golledge
Ed Rosales administers a vaccine at Douglas County s COVID-19 clinic at the Douglas County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, March 31, 2021.
Data from four local health organizations showed that more than 50,000 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Douglas County as of Thursday.
Altogether, data from the four distributors LMH Health, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, Heartland Community Health Center and Haskell Indian Health Center showed that 50,080 first doses and 32,984 second doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered. That’s an increase of 2,307 first doses and 5,990 second doses since the county last reported vaccine distribution information to the Journal-World on April 8.
Staff Report
April 14 COVID-19 update from the health department
Douglas County reported 9,042 cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday, an increase of 13 cases since Monday.
In Douglas County, 8,806 out of the 9,042 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 236 cases are active.
The health department will not update its COVID-19 epidemiological dashboard on Thursday because it will be holding a mass vaccination clinic.
The county has averaged about eight new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the health department. The current average of 7.5 new cases per day is up from a low of just under seven new cases per day in mid-March and down from a recent high of 71 cases per day in early January.
After six recipients of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the U.S. developed a rare blood clotting disorder, the Lawrence Douglas County Public Health will pause administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19, according to a press release. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment as well as the CDC and FDA also recommended the pause.
Douglas County Unified Command partners are working to provide smaller clinics with the Pfizer shipments to allow accessibility to the vaccine through a variety of clinic types in order to reach as many individuals in the community as possible.Â
âAll of our clinics at the fairgrounds the next two weeks will administer Pfizer doses, as we have primarily at these events since late January. This will not affect vaccine availability there,â said Director of Informatics Sonia Jordan. âWe have no planned Johnson & Johnson clinics at this time, so we are at a good place for pausing and waiting for additional guidance that CDC, FDA an