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County COVID-19 numbers trend downward
The Kansan
One year ago Feb. 28, 2020 to be exact was the first planning meeting involving members of the COVID-19 task force in Harvey County.
What has followed were community lockdowns, mask mandates, crowd size limitations, spiking infections, contact tracing, the opening of testing centers and beginning vaccine distribution for starters.
The time period also included 55 deaths within Harvey County.
However, case loads in the county are dropping just as they have statewide. We are averaging about five new cases a day over the past 14 days, said Lynette Redington, director of the Harvey County Health Department. Nine of those cases, over those 14 days, are cases from other counties that were sent to us. . We currently have 44 active cases and we have been under 100 active cases for all of February. That is wonderful, as well.
The Kansan
The first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Harvey County this week, with the first doses administered Thursday to medical staff at Newton Medical Center.
Health care workers across the state have started receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, which arrived Monday in Kansas. We were told that 24,000 would be sent to hospitals in the state. That is not going to cover a lot of front-line workers, said Lynnette Redington, director of the Harvey County Health Department. But that is the shipment we are expecting. Hopefully soon we will have more.
Those doses are manufactured by Pfizer, which started shipping vaccines this week. On Monday, nurses and doctors in several states began receiving the vaccine.