TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas is reporting spikes in COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations, as dozens of nursing homes experience outbreaks and the state prepares to see that health care workers receive the first available vaccines.
Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday that the state expects to receive the first of two vaccine doses for 23,750 people by the middle of this month if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorizes emergency use of a vaccine made by Pfizer. The state health department added 119 deaths since Monday, raising the state’s pandemic death toll to 1,679.
Kansas also had a record average of 53 new coronavirus-related hospitalizations a day for the seven days ending Wednesday.
