Data from four local health organizations showed that more than 50,000 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Douglas County as of Thursday. Altogether, data from the four distributors — LMH Health, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, Heartland Community Health Center ...

Douglas County leaders have approved a new health order that will keep the mask mandate in place, eliminate the mass-gathering limit and provide more flexibility about the occupancy rules for businesses and venues. As part of its meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission voted ...

Douglas County reported 9,042 cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday, an increase of 13 cases since Monday. In Douglas County, 8,806 out of the 9,042 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 236 cases are active. The health ...

Over half of University of Kansas employees and about one-fifth of the student population have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the university. Andrew Foster, KU’s emergency management coordinator, spoke to KU Chancellor Douglas Girod and Provost Barbara ...

Story updated at 5:51 p.m. Wednesday: Mission — Kansas has crossed the threshold of vaccinating more than 1 million people against COVID-19. That means 35% of the state’s 2.9 million residents have received at least one shot, according to state data released Wednesday. The state hit the ...

Douglas County's health officers are proposing a new health order that would keep the mask mandate in place, eliminate the mass-gathering limit and provide more flexibility about the occupancy rules for businesses and venues. The health order will go before the Douglas County Commission on ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said it will pause administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine following an announcement from national health organizations on Tuesday morning. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Kansas' largest community college is paying staff members to get COVID-19 vaccinations, and one of the state's largest public school districts is making in-home coronavirus testing kits available to students who want them. Johnson County Community College is paying ...

Douglas County reported 9,029 cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, an increase of 30 cases since Thursday. In Douglas County, 8,814 out of the 9,029 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 215 cases are active. The health ...

Douglas County Unified Command will offer three COVID-19 vaccination clinics per week in coming weeks with late afternoon and evening hours at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Registration for all clinics will be open to the public, and registration codes will be posted at ...

The local health department and several community-based organizations will be offering an equity-focused vaccine clinic on Saturday, providing vaccines to people of color, who national data shows are less likely to have received a vaccine. People 18 and older who identify as black, indigenous ...

Federal relief will soon be available for music and other arts venues that have been economically impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. Small Business Administration officially opened the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant application portal Thursday afternoon, according to a news ...

Data from four local health organizations showed that more than 47,500 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Douglas County as of Thursday. Altogether, data from the four distributors — LMH Health, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, Heartland Community Health Center ...

After county health leaders alerted the public on Tuesday afternoon that there were nearly 2,000 appointments still available for a vaccine clinic on Wednesday, only about 1,000 people signed up to fill the spots. George Diepenbrock, spokesperson for Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, ...

Douglas County has about 1,900 open appointment slots for its COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic on Wednesday, according to a news release on Tuesday afternoon. Any Douglas County resident 16 or older can make an appointment by entering code 284987 at LDCHealth.org/GetMyVaccine. The Pfizer ...

Story updated at 5:17 p.m. Tuesday: Douglas County has the highest rate of people vaccinated against COVID-19 in Kansas, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. In Douglas County, 438 out of every 1,000 people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The ...

Douglas County reported 8,971 cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, an increase of 27 cases since Thursday. In Douglas County, 8,776 out of the 8,971 cases are inactive or beyond the infectious period, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, meaning 195 cases are active. The county has ...

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Kansas counties already had started dropping or weakening mask rules before lawmakers toppled Gov. Laura Kelly's newly reissued order requiring them — and more are expected to follow suit even as variants first detected in South Africa and the United Kingdom have been ...

NEW YORK — Add travel to the activities vaccinated Americans can safely enjoy again, according to new U.S. guidance issued Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance to say fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S. without getting tested for the ...

Data from four local health organizations showed that more than 40,000 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in Douglas County as of Thursday. Altogether, data from the four distributors — LMH Health, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, Heartland Community Health Center ...