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Volunteers listened to county and city leaders prior to the start of Douglas County s final mass vaccination clinic on April 28.
Douglas County hosted its last mass COVID-19 vaccination event on Wednesday after more than three months of clinics.
Since Jan. 29, Douglas County has held 26 mass vaccination clinics at the Douglas County Fairgrounds and administered around 55,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Prior to the start of the final event on Wednesday, county and city leaders addressed the crowd of volunteers to thank them for their involvement and commemorate the success of their efforts.
“I have been involved in a lot of things: the births of children, the deaths of a lot of people, the happy times, the sad times, the rewarding times … and I tell you that this clinic has been one of the most rewarding and fulfilling things I will ever do in my entire career,” Dennis Leslie, division chief of training with Lawrence-Douglas County Fir ....

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Tents, Police Radios And A Grocery: Some Of The Ways Kansas Is Using $1 Billion In COVID-19 Aid


Originally published on December 22, 2020 5:51 am
LAWRENCE, Kansas In north Lawrence, the city set up 20 white-and-gray tents in a park to house people who are homeless.
It’s not health care, or COVID-19 tests, but federal coronavirus tax dollars are paying for the camp.
“If we put our homeless population into the shelter, there’s a higher chance that they’ll get the virus and then they’ll spread it across the community,” Douglas County Commissioner Patrick Kelly said.
The camp marks but one example of the creative ways communities are using the federal money. They scrambled to spend the cash before a deadline at the end of December, but Congress is now giving them more time. Restrictions also mean that money can’t go to some of the top priorities in local budgets. ....

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