From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 17, 1990:

• Influenza seemed to be sparing Lawrence and Douglas County to some extent this year. Dr. Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Kansas University’s Watkins Memorial Health Center, said he was seeing an average of four to five cases of influenza per day — well below the norm for this time of year among the KU student population. “Normally, we’d see 15 to 20 students per day in late January and early February,” Yockey said today. “We’ve actually had less acute influenza in the last four weeks than we’ve seen in the last four years.” Dr. Vernon Branson, a local pediatrician, said cases of influenza at his office had also been winding down.
• Administrators of area nursing homes were in agreement that as the number of Medicaid-eligible nursing home patients had risen dramatically in Kansas, questions had arisen about the state’s ability to keep up with the increasing costs. In 1991, 46 percent of the people in Kansas nursing homes, or about 14,000 people, were expected to need Medicaid, which provided financial assistance for low-income people of all ages and which was paid through state and federal funds.