{"id":58597,"date":"2021-02-15T08:17:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=58597"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T14:17:28","slug":"as-of-friday-active-cases-rise-then-fall-again-in-ellis-co-increased-doses-to-be-sent-to-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=58597","title":{"rendered":"As of Friday, active cases rise, then fall again in Ellis Co.; increased doses to be sent to Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BY JUSTIN SABATA<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Certain trends continue in regards to COVID-19 in Ellis County. 81 active cases were reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellisco.net\/693\/Covid-19-Portal\">Ellis County Health Department<\/a> on Friday, the lowest amount reported this week. 89 active cases were announced last Monday and 101 cases on Wednesday &#8211; the first time over 100 cases have been reported since January 15.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, the weekly average percent-of-positives rate has decreased by the day. A reported 9.4% of tests returned positive in the week leading up to last Monday, followed by 7.2% on Wednesday and 6.10% Friday. Nationwide, the weekly average currently sits at 5.9% according to <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/testing\/individual-states\">Johns Hopkins University<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overall positives rate (since the pandemic began) is currently at 14.2%. The <a href=\"https:\/\/hayspost.com\/posts\/f20bf877-a7ad-407c-873e-52a8c7efb446\">Hays Post<\/a> first reported that 68 people have passed away in Ellis County due to the virus.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov\/160\/COVID-19-in-Kansas\">KDHE<\/a> reported 1,208 new cases in the state since Wednesday. 61 new deaths and 47 new hospitalizations were also announced.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vaccine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the KDHE, 9.4% of Kansans have been vaccinated for COVID-19 as of Friday. Based on the numbers from the department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansasvaccine.gov\/158\/Data\">COVID vaccine dashboard<\/a>, about 64% of the doses distributed to Kansas counties have been administered. Residents aged 65 to 74 have received the most vaccines in the state so far.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a news conference on Wednesday, Gov. Kelly announced that the state is expecting to receive nearly 90,000 doses from the Biden administration next week &#8211; an increase from last month.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to urge them to both increase the number of vaccines we receive and to get a stimulus package signed and delivered, so that we can get the economic support we need to continue on our road to recovery,\u201d Kelly said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>500 doses were distributed to Ellis County this week. In comparison, nearby counties Rooks, Rush, Russell, and Trego have each received 100 doses.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY JUSTIN SABATA Certain trends continue in regards to COVID-19 in Ellis County. 81 active cases were reported by the Ellis County Health Department on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":56078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,13675,11],"tags":[14094,13676,1759,468,12479,13765],"class_list":["post-58597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-area-news","category-coronavirus","category-news","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-covid-19","tag-ellis-county","tag-ellis-county-health-department","tag-justin-sabata","tag-kdhe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/covid-ellis-county-logo.png?fit=1308%2C874&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58598,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58597\/revisions\/58598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}