Kansas lawmakers’ ire rises over handling of COVID-19 shots

(AP) Republican legislators are suggesting that mistakes by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration are making it more difficult for older Kansas residents to get COVID-19 vaccine shots. But the head of the state health department, Dr. Lee Norman, told legislators Tuesday that the biggest problem Kansas faces in administering the vaccines is “there’s just not enough.” He acknowledged during a joint meeting of the House and Senate health committees that he can’t predict how long it will take for the state to inoculate enough people to say it no longer faces a pandemic emergency. Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature have grown increasingly critical of Kelly and the health department over vaccines.