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Gov. Laura Kelly had cited the expected arrival of the Johnson & Johnson vaccines last week in announcing that Kansas would make eligible for inoculations all residents from 16 through 64 who have medical conditions that would put them at risk of serious complications or death from COVID-19.

By April 12, the state intends to make eligible people who are 50-years-old and older if they have two or more comorbidities.

Two weeks after that, around April 26, the state intends to make eligible people who are 16 and older who have two or more comorbidities.

He was able to get the vaccine on Wednesday after he updated state distribution guidance a day earlier to make eligible all frontline essential workers not yet vaccinated, including elected officials.

This year, he signed into law a partial expansion — to make eligible people with incomes of up to the poverty line — even though federal officials have not allowed such halfway steps.