By The Examiner staff
Truman Medical Center has added a website to take information for people trying to schedule vaccine appointments, in addition to its phone call line for scheduling.
The site is a pop-up on www.trumed.org. Eligible patients won’t be able to schedule their own vaccine appointments, but rather they can join a wait list. Patients will leave their information, and a scheduler will call them when a vaccine dose is available at one of TMC’s clinics. TMC added the pop-up site because of difficulties people have had getting through to a scheduler when they call the 404-CARE line. The hospital says it’s also trying to add schedulers.
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Unable to access COVID-19 vaccines, teachers are feeling frustrated and expendable in the ongoing debate about reopening schools.
Kathy Kappes-Sum is a middle school math teacher in De Soto, Kansas, which was the first school district in Johnson County to resume full-time in-person learning for older students. She said social distancing is now impossible in the small, 15-by-16-foot room she teaches in.
“We had social distancing with hybrid. In most of our classes, we could pull that off,” Kappes-Sum said. “I haven’t seen anything saying the CDC or the county have changed the guidelines for how we’re supposed to stay safe. It’s masks
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Originally published on February 6, 2021 8:02 am
As Missouri’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout geared up, the state left the work of making sure Black and Latino communities got equitable access to nine regional groups.
The theory was simple a regional organization would know its area best and would understand how to reach at-risk community members.
But more than a month into the rollout, four of those regional teams aren’t up and running and just 5% of the doses have gone to Black Missourians.
In the state, Kansas City has the highest number of vaccine deserts in areas that are particularly medically vulnerable, according to an analysis by Deloitte. When Kansas City’s implementation team gets started and it still has not, even this far into the vaccine rollout it will span 13 counties and cover more than a million people.
Mayor Lucas announces task force to oversee COVID-19 vaccine roll-out
February 3, 2021
Mayor Quinton Lucas official photo. // Courtesy City Hall.
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced his appointments to Kansas City’s Covid-19 Vaccine Task Force. The task force is intended to ensure the COVID-19 vaccine process is completed in an efficient and equitable manner.
Lucas says the appointments to the task force reflect Kansas City’s government partnership with Truman Medical Centers, St. Luke’s Hospital System, Research Medical Center, and federally qualified health centers such as Swope Health Services.
“Over the past several weeks and months, I have met with hospitals and healthcare leaders across Kansas City to see the vaccination process, and to encourage increased health institution collaboration city and region-wide to protect our community,” says Lucas.