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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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Greater access to rapid-response COVID tests, combined with vaccines for the 12-and-older crowd, means widespread quarantines should prove less likely this year.
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The Johnson County Commission on Thursday approved a public health order requiring masks be worn by everyone inside school buildings that enroll children up to and including 6th grade.
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The state's Farm to School initiative pairs Kansas family farms with school districts that want to buy food for student meals. But pandemic-related uncertainty about the coming school year makes it harder to form those connections.
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Tuesday's announcement from Mayor Quinton Lucas follows new CDC guidance urging that vaccinated people wear masks indoors in areas with significant COVID-19 spread.
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On Monday night, amid growing concerns about the delta variant of the coronavirus, SMSD became the only public school district in northern Johnson County to require at least some students to wear masks upon returning for in-person learning next month.
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Kansas hospitals are filling beds fast, and some are turning away seriously ill COVID patients from other areas or asking nurses to sign up for extra shifts.
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Even before kids head back to school — mostly unvaccinated — Kansas is seeing a troubling spike in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations.
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Kansas health department data showed that the number of confirmed cases of the delta variant jumped 44.1% last week.
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Schools are finding themselves under pressure to return to more normal, pre-pandemic operations.
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As the more contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus fuels new outbreaks in southwest Missouri, public health officials in southeast Kansas are redoubling their COVID vaccination push.