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The Wichita school board voted 4-3 to end the district’s mask requirement, citing dramatic drops in the number of COVID-19 cases and quarantines over recent weeks.
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The Wichita school district requires face coverings for anyone 3 or older inside district buildings. Board members Stan Reeser and Sheril Logan said they supported keeping the mandate at least through the winter months.
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Health experts in Kansas and Missouri said hospitals may soon have to institute crisis standards designed for catastrophic public health events.
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It’s unclear how many employees already got the shots. Pittsburg State University says 80% of its benefit-earning workers got vaccinated when the school offered bonuses.
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Kansas prisons were hotbeds of coronavirus infections early in the pandemic, but vaccinations appear to have protected those inmates living in close quarters.
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Krucial Staffing sent thousands of nurses to COVID-strained hospitals in New York, Texas and Louisiana. Meanwhile, the company's now-former CEO, and his family, may be behind Johnson County's anti-mask lawsuit.
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After a year off due to the pandemic, many fall festivals are returning in the coming months. But it's just as Kansas is seeing another unexpected surge in COVID-19 cases.
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The vaccine requirement applies to all employees, affiliated staff and contractors, students and volunteers.
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If you come down with a nasty case of COVID-19, here are the key things to worry about — moneywise — as you brace for the financial fallout.
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Because of a surge in COVID-19 cases, the Wellington school district has closed all of its public schools.
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New data from the federal government show an early COVID-19 death in Kansas could be the first in the country.
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The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that the state can, for now, enforce a COVID-19-inspired law restricting the power of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and county officials in emergencies.