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Task Force: Nearly 1 in 5 Riley County residents have received coronavirus vaccine
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Members of the Manhattan Area Recovery Task Force met via Zoom Thursday. (Screenshot)
Nearly 1 in 5 Riley County residents have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
As of Friday, more than 5,800 were fully vaccinated and an additional 5,800 receiving their first shot. Riley County Public Information Officer Alice Massimi addressed members of the Manhattan Area Recovery Task Force Thursday.
“These are individuals that have been vaccinated by Riley County Health Department or our partners at Stone Creek, Lafene and others because we have given them some of our allotment we have received from KDHE,” she said.
Local pharmacies, including Dillon’s, Hy-Vee and Walgreens are offering vaccines as well. Their data is not included in the county’s official numbers, meaning the nearly 16 percent of those who’ve received the Moderna vaccine could in fact be even higher.
The initial results for the Riley County portion of the Regional Business Confidence Survey, which was conducted by the Flint Hills Regional Council in part as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, are now available.
About 59 percent of the 39 Riley County businesses that responded saw a decrease in revenue while the remainder reported normal or increased revenue.
According to Marissa Jones-Flaget, Flint Hills Regional Council recovery and resiliency planner and grant specialist, the remainder of the survey was a bit of a mixed bag.
“81 percent felt that they had the resources to bring employees back (safely),” Flaget-Jones said during a Manhattan Area Recovery Task Force meeting on Thursday. “That’s a little bit better than the region as a whole, but again, customer traffic and losing business were the top two concerns for businesses.”