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There is no shortage of opportunities to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Wichita, with health officials in Sedgwick County setting up a series of mass vaccination sites, with events at public libraries, the county extension office and even the city's downtown basketball arena. "When I'm talking to the nurses ... they'll say 'Maggie, no, we only saw three or four Black folks today,'" Thompson said. "One lady said 'I've probably given a hundred shots and I had one Black man.' And that's when I thought 'We need to do something about this.' What is it going to take?"

Kansas, Missouri using 'honor system' to stop people from cutting in line for vaccine Jonathan Shorman and Lisa Gutierrez, The Kansas City Star Dec. 21—Health leaders spent months deciding who would get the COVID-19 vaccine and when. Doctors, nurses and nursing home residents first. Then first responders, those with underlying health problems, the elderly and the fuzzily defined essential worker. Finally, the general public. But as the universe of people eligible to get vaccinated expands in the coming weeks, those inclined to jump the line might be able to get shots months ...