COVID-19 vaccines expected to begin mid-week for UG Health Department front-line workers The Unified Government Health Department expects to receive about 800 doses of COVID-19 vaccine at the Health Department’s testing site at the former Kmart store at 78th and State Avenue. Health Department Director Juliann Van Liew said on a social media video Thursday, Dec. 17, that it could be Dec. 22 or 23 when the Health Department would receive the vaccines. “We are ready for them,” she said in the video. They first will vaccinate the Health Department public health care workers who have been testing people all these months, she said. Behind them will be the public and private EMS workers in Wyandotte County, she said.