Department chief Lindsay Payer and her colleagues have refused to administer any Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to residents.<\/p>\n
Coffee County in Kansas has roughly 8,500 residents, but they won\u2019t be getting their COVID-19 shots from the county health department\u2019s four nurses.<\/p>\n
Department chief Lindsay Payer and her staffers have opted out of giving the injections because they have doubts about the safety of the Moderna vaccine, which the county is offering, local TV station WIBW<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n Payer told WIBW that her employees made up their own minds and \u201cnot without considerable thought.\u201d The county will hire at least one outside nurse, who will be paid with COVID-19 funds.<\/p>\n \u201cI will tell you we will have to contract staff\u2026because my staff is not comfortable with that. It\u2019s a new technology. We\u2019ve never seen it before. It was only studied in 45 people before it was approved\u2026,\u201d Payer said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s somewhat discomforting to a nurse who has to put that in people\u2019s bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n