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The ultra-cold freezers sat waiting. Staff who had prepared to administer doses were standing by.
Instead, the hospital was told by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Friday that it would not receive any vaccine this week as expected. Clay County’s other major medical center, North Kansas City Hospital, hadn’t received any doses yet either.
Hospital staff expressed frustration that frontline workers would now have to wait even longer for a vaccine that they hoped would usher in the beginning of the end to a 10-month pandemic that has been unlike anything they have ever experienced.