KSHB: Local doctors push for people to get vaccinated

The state of the COVID-19 pandemic is frustrating doctors in the Kansas City metro area who say the pandemic could have ended if more people received their vaccine.

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly held a press conference at Saint Luke's Rehabilitation Institute on Friday with Dr. Andrew Schlachter, Saint Luke's internal medicine, pulmonary and critical care physician, and Dr. Dena Hubbard, pediatrician and chair of the public policy committee for the Kansas chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. 

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