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Douglas County added another coronavirus death Monday, but the number of new cases reported to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health since its last update is significantly lower than the number added between previous recent reports. The county’s latest death was a man in the 65-74 age ...
Douglas County added more than 800 new cases of COVID-19 over the past two days and also reported another COVID-19 death, according to the latest statistics from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. There have been 846 new COVID-19 cases reported to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has deployed 80 nonmedical soldiers and airmen from the Kansas National Guard to support the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s testing sites across the state and assist with the shipment and delivery of personal protective equipment, the governor's office ...
Amid a blood shortage affecting hospital systems at both the state and national levels, LMH Health is not experiencing a crisis right now — but without an uptick in donors, some worst-case scenarios could be realized. According to a Jan. 18 release from the Kansas Department of Health and ...
Updated at 3 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA — In response to increasing demand, Kansas health officials said Thursday they are working to increase the availability of COVID-19 testing sites. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said in a news release that demand for testing has ...
Douglas County has surpassed 20,000 total coronavirus cases recorded since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the latest data shared by Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health on Wednesday. That total, specifically, is now 20,824 cases, with 5,810 of them active. As part of that total, ...