Last weekend, for the first time during the pandemic, Dr. Drew Miller was unable to send a severely ill COVID-19 patient to the intensive care unit. Miller and other staff at Kearny County Hospital in southwestern Kansas had done what they could, putting the patient on a maximum oxygen flow. ...
After a brief reprieve in the green tier, the local health department has again raised its guidance to schools operating during the coronavirus pandemic. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced Thursday that it was raising its recommendation back to the yellow tier, which calls for ...
LENEXA, Kansas — For months, the people at a Johnson County lab found themselves consumed, running an endless parade of tests on human spit. The feds hadn’t yet OK’d a single saliva test for COVID-19, but the scientists at Clinical Reference Laboratory were sure they could design ...
A Lawrence pediatric health care center plans to merge with an expanding nonprofit health care provider early next year. Panda Pediatrics and Heartland Community Health Center announced the merger in a press release Wednesday and said the move will provide more unified access to integrated ...
One more Douglas County resident has died from COVID-19, according to the health department’s Wednesday update about the virus. Previously, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced that 18 people — five residents between the ages of 65 and 74, one resident between the ages of 75 and ...
Updated at 4:55 p.m. Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday ordered flags across Kansas to be flown at half-staff after the state passed another somber milestone in the continuing fight against COVID-19: 1,000 killed by the novel respiratory virus. COVID-19 has now claimed the lives of 1,007 Kansans ...