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Just a week after Douglas County moved up a tier in Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s coronavirus transmission scale, the county is on the cusp of moving up yet another tier to the highest level of severity, the “red” zone. Those color tiers are based on certain thresholds for two ...
The information that public health officials rely on to gauge community transmission of the coronavirus is shifting, in part because of the increased prevalence of self-testing that goes unreported to local health departments. Officials with Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health told the ...
For the first time since early March, Douglas County has moved out of the "green" zone of COVID-19 spread and into the more severe "yellow" zone, according to the county health department. On Tuesday, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health reported that the county had moved into the yellow ...
Following Monday's federal court ruling, effective immediately, masks on the Lawrence Transit system are now optional for riders and employees, according to a news release from the City of Lawrence Tuesday morning. This change comes as a result of the Transportation Security Administration ...
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. (AP) — The push to make personal protective equipment in the U.S. is running out of steam after an initial surge at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The Associated Press identified more than $125 million of governments grants to over 300 businesses in 10 states to ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas board that licenses health care providers raised concerns Friday about a letter that a physician-legislator sent to doctors suggesting that they prescribe ivermectin and other medications that aren’t approved to treat COVID-19. The Kansas Board of Healing ...