Kansas will follow a federal recommendation to pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six individuals developed blood clots as a possible side effect.
State health officials note none of those cases occurred in Kansas, but Health Secretary Lee Norman said Tuesday morning that it was better to heed the federal guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration just hours earlier. It is a small number, but you can’t turn a blind eye to something as significant as that, Norman said on a media briefing hosted by the University of Kansas Health System. We, therefore, are falling in line with (the federal guidelines).
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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.