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TOPEKA — Kansas and federal public health officials have expanded eligibility for the Pfizer booster shot to 36,000 children between ages 12 and 15, and moderately or severely immunocompromised children ages 5 to 11 can now get an additional primary dose. On Thursday, the Kansas Department ...
Updated at 3:55 p.m. Wednesday An emergency public health order that requires face coverings for those ages 2 and older inside public spaces in Douglas County will go into effect Friday to help protect the community as COVID-19 cases have rapidly increased during the past week. As of ...
TOPEKA — Jennifer Schrimsher, a physician at LMH Health, was up until 2 a.m. revising contingency plans. The hospital, like all others in Kansas, is coping with unprecedented numbers of COVID-19 patients and staff members out sick with the virus. She doesn’t know what to do. “We’ve ...
MISSION — Kansas health officials warned of a "dangerous moment" as one school district reimposed mask requirements and another eased up on them during a meeting so contentious that the audience was removed. In the Manhattan-Ogden district, the school board voted Monday to reinstate a ...
More than 300 new COVID cases emerged in Douglas County just before and after New Year’s Eve, but the number of people hospitalized for the virus didn’t increase at all, according to the latest figures. The number of active COVID cases jumped to 1,538 as of Monday afternoon, the ...
Mission — Kansas on Monday reported a record seven-day average for new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases, as one of the state’s largest hospitals struggled to treat an influx of patients. State health department data shows Kansas reported an average of 3,134 new COVID-19 cases a day ...