Kansas officials are pinning their hopes of keeping the COVID-19 delta variant in check on more people getting inoculated because it is reported to be spreading rapidly among the unvaccinated.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly acknowledged Thursday that there's not enough time before K-12 schools resume classes in mid-August to get all students ages 12 and older fully vaccinated. But she added that the state will focus on giving at least the first of two doses to as many as of them as possible.
She called more vaccinations the only thing that's going to stop the fast-spreading delta variant. The number of confirmed delta variant cases in Kansas has tripled this month, to more than 1,100.
