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MISSION — Nursing homes are facing COVID-19 outbreaks, schools are closing and hospitals in the Kansas City area are seeing so many deaths that they are raising alarms about morgue capacity. The problems come as Kansas yet again shattered its record for new confirmed and probable cases. The ...
UPDATED 1:15 P.M. Jan. 13, 2022: Eudora Public Schools will cancel all classes Friday due to an increasing number of COVID cases and a shortage of substitute teachers, the district announced Thursday afternoon. “Our current reality is that we simply do not have enough substitutes to ...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the government will double to 1 billion the rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests to be distributed free to Americans, along with the most protective N95 masks, as he highlighted his efforts to "surge" resources to help the country weather the ...
More than 900 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health since Monday, and the county has been seeing an average of more than 230 new cases per day for the past two weeks, according to the latest numbers from the health department. On Wednesday afternoon, ...
The COVID vaccination rate for LMH Health staff is now at 99%, though that number fluctuates somewhat because of new and departing staff, Amy Northrop, the hospital's director of communications, said Wednesday. The Lawrence hospital said in September of last year that vaccination against ...
MISSION — Doctors in Kansas and Missouri are hunting down ventilators and running out of monoclonal antibodies as COVID-19 patient counts hit pandemic highs at a growing number of hospitals. Health officials for hospitals in the Kansas City and Wichita areas issued a desperate plea ...