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“How can a 65-year-old be as vulnerable as a 90-year-old?”
That’s the question Cheryl Fruetel asked Wednesday morning in a phone interview with the Journal-World. Her parents, who are 89 and 86 years old, had not yet received COVID-19 vaccines in Douglas County. And they’d been waiting for over a month.
Fruetel, who lives in Richmond, Va., is 65 years old herself. People ages 65 and older qualify to receive a vaccine as part of Phase 2 of Kansas’ vaccine distribution process. But Fruetel wondered why the older members of that population had not been given priority over the younger ones.
“If Unified Command’s mission is to protect citizens, why aren’t they protecting the most vulnerable?” Fruetel asked. ....

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