The Douglas County Commission at its meeting Wednesday is set to consider a new emergency health order requiring face masks at indoor events with more than 500 people in attendance, such as a concert, sporting event, trade show or convention. Local health officers, with support from Douglas County Unified Command leaders, are recommending the new order specific to large crowds to help prevent the spread of ...
Douglas County added another 216 new coronavirus cases over the weekend, but the 14-day rolling average daily case count continues to drop. With that group of new cases, the county’s total case count since March of 2020 is now 24,211, with 3,850 active cases. Meanwhile, the rolling case count has dropped from 193.14 as of Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s Friday update to 144.71 as of Monday ...
As the Lawrence school district tries to close an estimated budget gap of up to $7 million, the district might close schools that recently had at least $16.5 million worth of taxpayer-funded improvements. Additionally, if those schools are closed, taxpayers are still going to be paying the debt on those millions of dollars of improvements for more than a decade, district spokeswoman Julie Boyle confirmed. The ...
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health reported Friday that another coronavirus death has been added to the county’s total. The death, a man between 75 and 84 years old, occurred in December 2021 and was confirmed by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s Office of Vital Statistics Friday. Douglas County’s death toll since the beginning of the pandemic is now 129. The county has added 233 new ...
In the past two days, 378 new COVID cases have been added to Douglas County's total, and three more deaths have been reported. The three deaths, reported by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Wednesday, were two men in the 75-84 age range and one man in the 65-74 range. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health's updated statistics note that COVID-19 deaths reported by the state are updated ...
About 15 people came to Wednesday's Douglas County Commission meeting to protest against the county's COVID-19 mitigation measures, and they said they would take legal action against the county if their demands were not met. Five of the protesters spoke during the commission's public comment period. They urged commissioners to vote against implementing any further protocols or extending current rules such as an ...