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After adding nearly 1,600 new COVID-19 cases to the tally last week alone — the highest-recorded amount in Douglas County since the start of the pandemic — Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health data showed a slight tapering off Monday afternoon with just 310 new cases recorded since ...
MISSION — Employee absences fueled by a surge in COVID-19 cases are straining Kansas hospitals, schools and emergency services and raising questions about whether some court trials might need to be delayed. When students returned from break last week in the Wichita school district, 1,274 of ...
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — A hospital in eastern Kansas ran out of ventilators Friday as the state continued to report a surge in COVID-19 cases. The Lyons County Board declared a local emergency Friday after the Newman Regional Health hospital in Emporia ran short of ventilators. The Kansas City ...
Eight hundred and four new cases of COVID-19 have been reported to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health since Wednesday. That's on top of 727 new cases reported between Monday and Wednesday, bringing the four-day total to 1,531, a record high. The cumulative case count for the county now ...
Updated at 11:13 a.m. Friday The University of Kansas’ chancellor is warning fans that KU may limit attendance at basketball games at Allen Fieldhouse if fans don’t start doing a better job of wearing masks. Chancellor Douglas Girod on Friday sent a message to the campus community ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday eased or suspended Kansas licensing rules for medical personnel and nursing home workers in hopes of making it easier for them to attack staffing shortages during a surge of new COVID-19 cases. Kelly issued two executive orders. One allows hospital staff ...