Sue Wildgen, a Prairie Village resident in her 70s, began looking for COVID-19 vaccination appointments in early February. Several of her friends on the other side of the state line in Missouri received their first doses in early January, and despite filling out Johnson County’s COVID-19 vaccine interest survey and searching for appointments in the metro, Wildgen said her search for weeks was unsuccessful. Then, she heard that Walmart would begin offering vaccines at select locations, and she began looking for appointments across Kansas. So, like some other frustrated Johnson Countians, Wildgen, her husband Paul and fellow Prairie Village residents Beth and Lloyd Koelker, took to the road. The foursome made a two hour drive to Junction City in Geary County, just west of Manhattan, to get vaccinated.
Source: Prairie Village Post
