Most workers in the county’s health and mental health departments will have to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or face possible firing, the Sedgwick County Commission decided Wednesday. The county employees will have until Feb. 28 to become fully vaccinated with the two-dose Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson jab. The vaccine mandate for public-facing health care workers is required by the federal government and if the county doesn’t comply, it could lose more than $11 million in federal Medicare and Medicaid funding, officials said.
Source: Wichita Eagle
