Story updated at 4:06 p.m. Wednesday A movement tracking system available to state governments indicates that the Sunflower State regressed recently in its social distancing efforts, Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Lee Norman said Wednesday. The system, called Unacast, uses anonymized GPS data from cell phones to show how much people are moving now compared to data collected before the ...
Joining a growing number of universities around the country, the University of Kansas told faculty members on Monday that it would offer students the option to take all of their courses for credit — rather than a grade — in light of the abrupt switch to online learning. The move to online-only courses, forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, required university leaders to examine whether temporary changes were ...
Unemployment claims in Kansas have increased over 3,000% since the COVID-19 pandemic began impacting the United States, overwhelming the state’s Department of Labor call center, Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday. At the beginning of March, the state was getting an average of around 1,800 claims per week. As of Sunday, that number had jumped to over 60,000 claims per week — and the state call center is now ...
A Lawrence biotechnology company is in the process of solidifying clinical trials for a therapy that could drastically reduce the more complicated symptoms of COVID-19. Clara Biotech, based on the University of Kansas’ west campus, says it has developed a way to directly target infected lung tissue using pieces of information already in the body — called exosomes. Exosomes are a relatively new find, ...
As institutes of higher education around the country continue to grapple with economic challenges surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, they are simultaneously dealing with unprecedented changes to how they conduct research. In line with Douglas County’s stay-at-home order, which took effect Tuesday, and federally issued recommendations on social distancing, the University of Kansas had to order the stoppage ...
The future Douglas County crisis center has the necessary funding for planning and construction costs. State lawmakers approved the county’s request for $750,000 to finish the center as part of the state budget for fiscal years 2020 and 2021, which Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law Wednesday. “It’s been an ongoing conversation and it’s been a conversation we’ve found to be very encouraging and ...