Johnson County will no longer be receiving shipments of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, county health officials say. … Kansas has started saving the Moderna vaccine for other counties that don’t have ultra-cold freezers needed to keep the Pfizer vaccine, which must be stored at temperatures significantly lower than the Moderna vaccine. (Here’s a NPR explainer on why the Pfizer vaccine requires colder storage than the Moderna vaccine.) Since Johnson County has the ability to store Pfizer vaccines, and smaller, more rural counties may not, Kansas will begin diverting Moderna doses to those other counties and send Pfizer doses to Johnson County.
Source: Prairie Village Post

Little alarm bells went off for Jay Rutler about three years ago, when his son — who was in middle school at the time — started talking about a mysterious “warehouse” in the neighborhood that kids liked to visit. So at his son’s urging, Rutler walked out to the long-abandoned Kuhlman Diecasting plant about three-quarters of a mile from their family’s home. “When I was out, there were a couple of high school kids making out in one corner and a bunch of kids that were young – middle school, maybe elementary school – that were climbing on the roof of that place,” Rutler said. “You’ve got rusted holes through it, and big openings that were windows or vent holes. It was obviously very concerning.”
Source: Prairie Village Post