Kansas is reporting spikes in COVID 19 deaths and hospitalizations, as dozens of nursing homes experience outbreaks and the State prepares to see that healthcare workers receive the first available vaccines. Governor Laura Kelly says the State expects to receive the first of two vaccine doses for 23,750 people by the middle of the month, if the Food and Drug Administration authorizes emergency use for the 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 seven days ending Wednesday, December 2nd.
