Students from the University of Essex were evacuated from an accommodation block in Colchester's Lightship Way after a chip pan was left unattended and caught fire.
“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.
Starting Friday, mass gatherings of up to 25 people will be allowed in Douglas County, and businesses will be able to operate at 50% capacity, according to an updated health
The director of Douglas County’s health department said Wednesday that there is a potential problem with its system for signing people up for COVID-19 vaccina