Kansas officials alerting all providers of smaller J&J COVID vaccine shipments Michael Stavola, The Wichita Eagle
Apr. 7 Kansas now has estimates on the future availability of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, which recently had 15 million doses thrown out after a batch didn t meet quality standards.
Kansas is expected to receive 5,000 doses next week and 1,700 doses each of the last two weeks of April. Kansas had previously expected to receive 15,800 doses during those weeks, according to an alert sent to public health officials Wednesday by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
The alert said as a point of reference that 47,100 doses of Johnson & Johnson were delivered to Kansas this week.
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CDC says one-third of Kansans have gotten a COVID vaccine, 80% of senior citizens Jason Tidd, The Wichita Eagle
Apr. 5 More than 80% of Kansans aged 65 and older have gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, ranking Kansas as the 10th-best state. Kansas is one of thirteen states leading on vaccinating our seniors, Gov. Laura Kelly said in a tweet, referring to states with 80% or more seniors vaccinated with at least one dose. This is how we get Kansans back to work, our kids back to school and our state back to normal.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine data as of Monday showed that 80.8% of senior citizens in Kansas have been vaccinated with at least one dose and 56.6% have been fully vaccinated. The vaccination rates rank 10th and 24th, respectively, out of 50 states.
Mar. 31 More than half of the new hospitalizations and ICU admissions for COVID-19 in Kansas reported in the last two days were residents of Sedgwick County. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Wednesday reported pandemic totals of 302,372 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, 9,728 hospitalizations, 2,671 ICU admissions and 4,913 deaths. Since Monday, there have been 510 .
Are Easter church services safe? Here s what Kansas doctors say after a year of COVID Jason Tidd, The Wichita Eagle
Apr. 1 As Easter Sunday approaches, some Kansas doctors say in-person church services that don t follow health guidelines are riskier than religious gatherings a year ago.
Doctors speaking during recent media briefings hosted by The University of Kansas Health System urged churches not to loosen pandemic restrictions on their holiday worship services. Singing, especially without masks and in close proximity to each other, raises risks for spreading the coronavirus at religious gatherings. To any church leaders out there, just remember COVID is still out there, said Dr. Steve Stites, University of Kansas Health System Chief Medical Officer. There s still widespread community transmission. . You re seeing a rise in COVID again. It looks like there may be another surge, and it s caused by the same things it is always caused by: When folks don t foll