Posted By: George Lawson January 7, 2021 @ 11:21 am Local News, News
Sedgwick County has opened a page on its web site that will allow residents to keep track of the COVID-19 vaccine and its distribution.
The Vaccine StoryMap can be accessed through the county’s web page at www.sedgwickcounty.org It will include reported doses given by the Sedgwick County Health Department and other providers. The site will be updated each Wednesday.
The county has administered over 7,000 doses of the vaccine, and for now they are only going to health care workers. Deputy county manager Tim Kaufman is urging people in the health care industry to schedule an appointment through the county’s web site. The county has set up a vaccine station at INTRUST Bank Arena, and Kaufman said the county plans to use that location through January. The site will not be open on Friday and Saturday, January 8th and
Brian Grimmett, Kansas News Service
photo by: Associated Press
A bottle of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine is seen on a table before Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly received an injection Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
For starters, the COVID-19 vaccine doses intended for Ness County in west-central Kansas landed somewhere else.
“That was my first clue we had a problem,” said Carolyn Gabel, the county’s public health administrator.
Then someone from Dodge City called. Those vials bound for Ness City? They hadn’t been kept as cold as needed. They were no good anymore and needed replacing.
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For starters, the COVID-19 vaccine doses intended for Ness County in west-central Kansas landed somewhere else.
“That was my first clue we had a problem,” said Carolyn Gabel, the county’s public health administrator.
Then someone from Dodge City called. Those vials bound for Ness City? They hadn’t been kept as cold as needed. They were no good anymore and needed replacing.
Eventually, she had to drive to the next county to the west, pick up a different set of doses, put them in her cooler and dash back across 30-plus miles to her office.
“Instead of having the vaccine before Christmas like we should have had,” Gabel said, “we didn’t get it until
December 28, 2020 by Jenny Goertzen
Sedgwick County Health Department Partners With Local Clinics To Provide Vaccines To Health Care Workers, Appts Can Be Made Online For Next 2 Weeks
The Sedgwick County Health Department has partnered with local community clinics to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to Health Care Associated Workers (HCAW) that have not yet received their first dose of the vaccine.
Additionally, HCA Workers can schedule an appointment online for the next two weeks beginning Monday, December 28th–with appointments set to begin on Tuesday the 29th.
Click here to schedule an appointment.
Vaccinations for those with the HCAW will be at INTRUST Bank Arena at 500 East Waterman (Entrance C) in Wichita.
Airports across the nation seeing a boost over the holiday weekend. More than 1.2 million people passed through airport security checkpoints. It’s the biggest since the pandemic began back in March.