As the United States passes 50 percent of its total population fully vaccinated for coronavirus, no area county is close to that mark.
Recent data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment shows only three of the seven area counties above 40 percent of their total populations fully vaccinated. Lyon County is first areawide at 43.6 percent, followed by Morris County at 43.2 percent and Morris County at 41.5 percent.
On the other side of the equation:
*Coffey County, 39 percent
*Osage County, 38.4 percent
*Wabaunsee County, 37.8 percent
*Chase County, 35.2 percent
Percentages are higher when fully-vaccinated eligible residents ages 12-plus are considered:
*Lyon County: 51 percent
*Morris County: 50.2 percent
*Greenwood County: 48.2 percent
*Coffey County: 45.5 percent
*Osage County: 44.8 percent
*Wabaunsee County: 44.4 percent
*Chase County: 40.4 percent
Kansas has now recorded almost 340,000 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic came to the state in early March 2020. Between Wednesday and Friday, almost 2,200 new cases were reported in Kansas.
Health officials are urging residents to get vaccinated to protect themselves and others against COVID-19 in general, but specifically against the delta variant — which now accounts for better than 90 percent of all genomically-sequenced cases across the country, transmits more easily between people and causes more serious symptoms for unvaccinated residents.
