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Sedgwick County Sheriff questions KDHE about vaccine for Jail medical staff

Sedgwick County Sheriff questions KDHE about vaccine for Jail medical staff
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Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter is asking the Kansas Department of Health and Environment when front line medical workers, specifically ones working at the Sedgwick County Jail, will get vaccinated for the coronavirus. He tells KSN News his staff has spent the last month-and-a-half asking KDHE for an update on the COVID-19 vaccines.  First for his staff and eventually the inmates. Sheriff Easter says the vaccinations would benefit the entire community...

"We have a very transient population here," says Sheriff Easter.  "They might be in here a day, two days, a week, two weeks.  They're going to be back out in the community and still spreading this."


Towards the end of July, early August the jail did mass testing and 795 inmates tested positive.  Sheriff Easter adds that positive cases among the medical staff and detention workers have caused staffing shortages.