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Douglas County has added a coronavirus death that occurred earlier this year to its tally, and the county's virus transmission levels remain in the highest level of severity, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s latest update. The health department’s latest data, released ...
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s clinic at 200 Maine St. has reopened as planned, after closing temporarily due to positive coronavirus cases among clinic staff last week. The clinic closed last Wednesday out of precaution, and to allow staff to recover and properly clean the space. ...
Though Douglas County returned to the most severe level of COVID-19 transmission this week, the county’s top public health official said it’s unlikely it will lead to a community mask mandate like earlier this year. The Journal-World asked county health officer Jennifer Schrimsher whether ...
Douglas County has entered the highest severity level of COVID-19 transmission, according to the latest coronavirus data from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. As of Thursday afternoon, Douglas County’s average daily case count was 60.4, and the county had 1,074 active cases. The ...
The Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health clinic at 200 Maine St. is closed until Monday after some of the clinic’s staff tested positive for the coronavirus Tuesday. The health department announced the closure early Wednesday afternoon in a social media post. The post notes that all of the ...
Just a week after Douglas County moved up a tier in Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s coronavirus transmission scale, the county is on the cusp of moving up yet another tier to the highest level of severity, the “red” zone. Those color tiers are based on certain thresholds for two ...