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March 11, 2021Topeka, Kan. |  By: AP

GOP lawmaker pushes plan to undo Kansas policy on vaccines


TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Republican lawmaker in Kansas outlined a measure Wednesday that would overturn Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's policy of withholding doses of COVID-19 vaccines from counties wanting to move to a new phase of inoculations before the rest of the state.

Senate health committee Chair Richard Hilderbrand called the policy "blackmail or extortion."

The state Department of Health and Environment has described withholding vaccine doses as an "enforcement mechanism" and Kelly says the goal is to "keep the train running as smoothly as we possibly can."