Apr 23, 2021
Nurses fill syringes with a COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Kansas City, Mo. Demand for the coronavirus vaccine has fallen off in some places around the United States to the point where some counties are turning down new shipments of doses. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Louisiana has stopped asking the federal government for its full allotment of COVID-19 vaccine. About three-quarters of Kansas counties have turned down new shipments of the vaccine at least once over the past month. And in Mississippi, officials asked the federal government to ship vials in smaller packages so they don’t go to waste.
COVID-19 LIVE UPDATES: 25% of population in Missouri have completed vaccination
Here are the latest COVID-19 updates in the Kansas City metro area Share Updated: 11:58 AM CDT Apr 23, 2021 KMBC 9 News Staff
Here are the latest COVID-19 updates in the Kansas City metro area Share Updated: 11:58 AM CDT Apr 23, 2021
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Show Transcript 75. ALL RIGHT. THANKS SO MUCH KATIE. WELL, IT’S 8 11 AND MORE THAN 115,000 PEOPLE IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI ARE NOW FULLY VACCINATED ALMOST 34% OF KANSAS CITY AND HAVE RECEIVED A FIRST DOSE OF THE VACCINE. WELL THE PAUSE ON THE JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINES THE MAIN REASON WHY NEXT WEEK’S VACCINATION EVENT AT ARROWHEAD STADIUM WAS CANCELED. THIS IS FROM THE JACKSON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT ORGANIZERS CONSIDERED USING THE PFIZER OR MODERNA VACCINE. BUT WE’RE TOLD THAT ARROWHEAD WOULD NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR FOLLOW-UP DOSES WAS VACCINE DEMAND BEGINS TO SLOW JACKSON COUNTY WILL NOW FOCUS ON MORE M
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JACKSON, Miss. – Louisiana has stopped asking the federal government for its full allotment of COVID-19 vaccine. About three-quarters of Kansas counties have turned down new shipments of the vaccine at least once over the past month. And in Mississippi, officials asked the federal government to ship vials in smaller packages so they don’t go to waste.
As the supply of coronavirus vaccine doses in the U.S. outpaces demand, some places around the country are finding there’s such little interest in the shots, they need to turn down shipments.
New COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the Palmdale and Lancaster Metrolink stations will offer free shots with no appointments required.
Some are urging federal officials to send more vaccine to places where there’s demand rather than allocate them based on population including Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, who said Thursday that his state could administer two to three times more doses per day if it had more supply.
In Mississippi, small-town pharmacist Robin Jackson has been practically begging anyone in the community to show up and get shots after she received her first shipment of vaccine earlier this month and demand was weak, even though she placed signs outside her storefront celebrating the shipment’s arrival. She was wasting more vaccine than she was giving out and started coaxing family members into the pharmacy for shots.
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