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Vehicles line up at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, where residents were receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, on Friday, Jan. 29, 2020, in Lawrence, Kan.
Douglas County hosted a Phase 2 COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Douglas County Fairgrounds on Friday, where 960 residents were scheduled to arrive between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Dan Partridge, director of Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, said Friday afternoon that the clinic was busy that morning, but that some kinks were worked out quickly to make every station work efficiently. Partridge said the check-in station was causing some delays, but that once volunteers found out they only needed to scan participants’ QR codes, things went smoother. Cars drove from the check-in zone into the arena, where there were 10 drive-thru vaccination stations and one walk-up station. Finally, cars proceeded into the pavilion, which served as the observation zone.
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In this Jan. 21, 2021 file photo a medical staff member prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Tudor Ranch in Mecca, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Unified Command will make a change to its established Phase 2 coronavirus vaccine distribution process in order to vaccinate all residents of senior living facilities next week, according to the director of the health department.
On Wednesday, the Journal-World reported that 17 senior living facilities in the county were originally supposed to get vaccinated in Phase 1. When the state and Douglas County moved into Phase 2, however, Unified Command’s chair of the Vaccination Planning Unit said this population would not be given priority. As of Wednesday morning, 1,114 individuals in the 17 facilities needed to be vaccinated.
A COVID-19 testing site will open Tuesday in Lawrence for any Douglas County resident in need of a free test. Ruaa Hassaballa shared the news in a Thursday ev
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Jan. 26 COVID-19 update from the health department.
Older residents, workers in a variety of industries and all of the other groups identified in Phase 2 of Douglas County’s vaccination plan will be allocated some vaccines every week, the county’s health department announced Tuesday.
But the health department’s spokesman said that doesn’t necessarily mean each group will receive an equal number of doses, and some details of how the allocation will work aren’t yet clear.
In a news release Tuesday, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health said that as doses became available in the county, they would be distributed “equitably” among the following groups: residents 65 and older; essential workers in local government; workers in the education sector; workers in the food service industry; people who live or work in congregate care settings; and anyone who was eligible to be vaccinated in Phase 1 but has not yet received a shot. A group of “workers critical
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