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“How can a 65-year-old be as vulnerable as a 90-year-old?”
That’s the question Cheryl Fruetel asked Wednesday morning in a phone interview with the Journal-World. Her parents, who are 89 and 86 years old, had not yet received COVID-19 vaccines in Douglas County. And they’d been waiting for over a month.
Fruetel, who lives in Richmond, Va., is 65 years old herself. People ages 65 and older qualify to receive a vaccine as part of Phase 2 of Kansas’ vaccine distribution process. But Fruetel wondered why the older members of that population had not been given priority over the younger ones.
“If Unified Command’s mission is to protect citizens, why aren’t they protecting the most vulnerable?” Fruetel asked.
Shawnee County’s COVID-19 Community Transmission and Severity scorecard rose one point despite seeing improvements in multiple areas, but changes are coming to the scorecard soon.
Erin Locke, Shawnee County health officer, said future scorecards will no longer count the number of cases with no known source of infection and one other metric. She wasn’t able to share what will be the second item removed.
The Shawnee County commissioners have been critical of the scorecard recently and pushed the health department to make changes to it. Some commissioners were hoping to see vaccine information and recovery rates on the scorecard.