Kansas City metro area health officials are grappling with how to handle continuing case count increases after reopening businesses more than four months ago. What you need to know:The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Monday the state has 247,502 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and there have been 3,255 deaths since the outbreak started. Kansas is now only updating COVID-19 data on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Monday there have been 424,986 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the outbreak and 5,951 deaths.MONDAY12:30 p.m. — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported an increase of 5,180 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in its first update since Friday, pushing the statewide total to 247,502 since the outbreak started.KDHE officials said Friday the death total grew by 107 to 3,255 and hospitalizations increased by 94 to 7,351 since the outbreak started.Health officials said Monday that 40% (+8%) of ICU beds are available and 82% (+0%) of the state’s ventilators are available.The state said it has tested 1,066,516 people with 819,014 negative test results and an overall monthly positive test rate of 12.7%.[ KANSAS COVID-19 COVID-19 DASHBOARD ]Sedgwick County has the highest total of confirmed cases since the start of the outbreak with 44,604. Johnson County is second with 43,450 cases. Wyandotte County is third with 16,794 cases. Leavenworth County has 5,512 cases, Douglas County reports 7,003 and Miami County has 2,113. Health officials they are monitoring 373 active outbreak clusters with 212 clusters reported in long-term care facilities.10:30 a.m. — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced 1,659 more COVID-19 cases have been reported in the state since Sunday’s update. These cases take the state’s total to 424,986 total confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic. Three more deaths were also reported, taking the state’s death toll due to the coronavirus to 5,951. [ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.The state said it has tested a total of 3,830,281 and 113,320 were tested in the past seven days. There have been 19,496 positive cases and an average of 2,785 cases a day in the last week.Looking at local numbers, the DHSS reported 32,799 (+50) confirmed cases in Kansas City, Missouri, and 25,548 (+164) cases in Jackson County. The state also lists 6,823 (+44) cases in Clay County, 6,122 (+27) in Cass County and 2,646 (+32) in Platte County. 9 a.m. — Dr. Dana Hawkinson with the University of Kansas Health System said the hospital is treating 123 total COVID-19 patients with 56 in recovery phase and 67 acute cases, including 23 that are in the ICU and 14 on ventilators.7 a.m. — Kansas prisons ravaged by COVID-19 are set to be prioritized for vaccinations next — frustrating news for some lawmakers but welcome by inmates’ families and activists.The state prison system — housing about 8,600 inmates — has reported 5,320 cases among offenders and an additional 1,076 among staff. Thirteen inmates and four staff members have died. Gov. Laura Kelly confirmed Thursday that inmates would be vaccinated after health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities. She said they were being prioritized based on guidance from doctors and public health experts. The second group also will include people 65 and older and critical workers such as firefighters, law enforcement officers, meatpacking employees, grocery store workers, teachers and child care workers. Incoming Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop, a Wichita Republican, said if it were “early in the game,” he’d say, “Let’s do it,” because the state pays for inmates’ medical care.“With the percentage of occupants at a such high level already exposed and the antibodies are there for close to a year, I don’t know that it makes total sense,” Suellentrop said.House Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr., an Olathe Republican, also criticized the plan to vaccinate inmates relatively early, saying, “We’re going to have a lot of discussion.” But Nadine Johnson, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas, said the vaccines were critical.“The virus has run rampant within Kansas’s crowded prisons and jails, but does not stop at those walls; it continues to threaten corrections staff and officers, their families, and communities statewide,” she said in a written statement, adding that some the inmates shouldn’t even be behind bars. “There are people incarcerated in our state’s correctional facilities for specious reasons founded in an unjust system. Their situation needs attention and action. Vaccination does not absolve that need.”Deana Estrada, whose fiancé, Ronnie Loggins, got COVID-19 while incarcerated at the state prison in Lansing on drug and explosives charges, said the resistance to vaccinating inmates is “cruel.” Estrada, 34, said the prison outbreak has complicated efforts to treat Loggins for cancer. A clemency request is pending.“They may have made bad choices and stuff, but obviously they didn’t do enough bad choices to make them be put on death row,” said Estrada, who lives in Junction City. Demand for the vaccine is strong with the virus surging. Statewide the number of deaths rose by 121 from Wednesday to Friday, taking the state’s total to 3,148 or one case for every 925 of its 2.9 million residents. The number of confirmed cases rose by 5,504 to 242,322, or one for every 12 residents.The rollout has been clunky at times. At Ellinwood Hospital in Barton County, there was confusion last week when the first shipment of 30 doses of the Moderna vaccine arrived without any notice. Staff hastily stowed them in the freezer before realizing they didn’t need to be kept at such cold temperatures and then had to call the manufacturer to see if they were still safe to administer. The verdict was yes.Lindsey Bogner, the foundation and community education director at the small 25-bed rural hospital and nearby clinic, was among those who were immunized this week.“The whole process there has been not as much communication as you would want, but that is probably normal in something like that that is being rolled out and is logistically very difficult to put together,” she sad. “It is hard to do, especially when you don’t have a very deep staff or you don’t have a lot of people to put toward it.”Some health care workers have declined the vaccine for now, but Dr. Lee Norman, head of the state Department of Health and Environment, said they are in the minority. He said this group, which he estimated made up about 20% of the health care workforce, typically forego the vaccine either because they want to wait longer to see that the vaccine is safe or because they’ve already had COVID-19 and “feel that they are immune and that they would rather have it go their colleagues.”He said he believes there’s “only a very small number” of health care workers who don’t want to get the vaccine at all.[ COVID-19 IN KC: TRACKING CASES, DEATHS AND LATEST RESTRICTIONS ][ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT THE COVID-19 VACCINE ] SUNDAY2:30 p.m. — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced 2,744 more COVID-19 cases have been reported in the state since Saturday’s update. These cases take the state’s total to 423,327 total confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic. Four more deaths were also reported, taking the states death toll due to the coronavirus to 5,948. [ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.The state said it has tested a total of 3,819,153 and 103,696 were tested in the past seven days. There have been 18,437 positive cases and an average of 2,634 cases a day in the last week.Looking at local numbers, the DHSS reported 32,740 (+295) confirmed cases in Kansas City, Missouri, and 25,384 (+205) cases in Jackson County. The state also lists 6,779 (+35) cases in Clay County, 6,095 (+65) in Cass County and 2,646 (+18) in Platte County. [ COVID-19 IN KC: TRACKING CASES, DEATHS AND LATEST RESTRICTIONS ][ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT THE COVID-19 VACCINE ] SATURDAY7 p.m. — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported Saturday that the state has 420,583 total confirmed cases since the pandemic began. That number is an increase of 3,825 cases from Friday’s total.There have now been 5,944 deaths linked to COVID-19 in Missouri, which up 32 from Friday’s total.There have been 67 deaths reported in the last seven days.[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.The state said it has tested a total of 3,798,436 and 101,358 were tested in the past seven days. There have been 18,570 positive cases and an average of 2,6953 cases a day in the last week.Looking at local numbers, the DHSS reported 32,445 (+397) confirmed cases in Kansas City, Missouri, and 25,179 (+241) cases in Jackson County. The state also lists 6,744 (+141) cases in Clay County, 6,030 (+158) in Cass County and 2,628 (+107) in Platte County.[ COVID-19 IN KC: TRACKING CASES, DEATHS AND LATEST RESTRICTIONS ][ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT THE COVID-19 VACCINE ] FRIDAY9:45 p.m. — The Kansas City Public Library said it has closed Plaza Branch at 4801 Main St. after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. Library officials said the staff member worked this week. The Plaza Branch will reopen once the library can complete contact tracing, complete the cleaning, and ensure adequate staffing.3:45 p.m. — The Mid-Continent Public Library said its East Lee’s Summit Branch at 2240 SE Blue Parkway is temporarily closed due to potential COVID-19 exposure. The book drop will remain open. Holds on materials that were available at the branch before the closure will be extended. The library said it is working with the Jackson County Health Department to determine additional next steps. 12:30 p.m. — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported an increase of 5,504 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in its first update since Wednesday, pushing the statewide total to 242,332 since the outbreak started.KDHE officials said Friday the death total grew by 121 to 3,148 and hospitalizations increased by 144 to 7,257 since the outbreak started.Health officials said Friday that 32% (+0%) of ICU beds are available and 82% (+1%) of the state’s ventilators are available.The state said it has tested 1,051,207 people with 808,885 negative test results and an overall monthly positive test rate of 13.2%.[ KANSAS COVID-19 COVID-19 DASHBOARD ]Sedgwick County has the highest total of confirmed cases since the start of the outbreak with 43,349. Johnson County is second with 42,456 cases. Wyandotte County is third with 16,576 cases. Leavenworth County has 5,395 cases, Douglas County reports 6,810 and Miami County has 2,083. Health officials they are monitoring 373 active outbreak clusters with 212 clusters reported in long-term care facilities.11 a.m. — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported Friday that the state has 416,758 total confirmed cases since the pandemic began. That number is an increase of 4,332 cases from Wednesday’s total.There have now been 5,912 deaths linked to COVID-19 in Missouri, which up 30 from Thursday’s total.There have been 66 deaths reported in the last seven days.[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.The state said it has tested a total of 3,773,583 and 97,577 were tested in the past seven days. There have been 18,187 positive cases and an average of 2,598 cases a day in the last week.Looking at local numbers, the DHSS reported 32,048 (+339) confirmed cases in Kansas City, Missouri, and 24,938 (+686) cases in Jackson County. The state also lists 6,603 (+58) cases in Clay County, 5,872 (+57) in Cass County and 2,521 (+93) in Platte County.9 a.m. — Dr. Dana Hawkinson with the University of Kansas Health System said Friday the hospital is treating 141 total COVID-19 patients with 70 in recovery phase and 71 acute cases, including 23 that are in the ICU and 15 on ventilators.7 a.m. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced $68 million in federal aid for college construction projects and released close to $127 million he previously cut. Parson last year blocked the state from spending nearly $450 million of its more than $35 billion budget after state finances took a hit from the coronavirus pandemic.On Wednesday he said the state economy bounced back faster than expected, allowing much of the restricted money to now be spent. Another $8.6 million is now available for state tourism, as well as $9.4 million for work programs for low-income families who receive state financial help. Newly released funding also includes $14 million for state colleges and universities and more than $9 million for community colleges. The state funding for colleges and universities is coupled with another $68 million from the federal government for Missouri schools to fix up old buildings. Parson said the money for university construction projects also will help put people back to work. St. Louis Community College in Forest Park also received a $4 million federal grant to open an on-site childcare center for the first time.6 a.m. — Kansas expects to finish giving COVID-19 vaccines to long-term care residents and health care workers by the end of this month and has moved people aged 65 and older into the next group to receive the shots. READ MOREDemocratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday announced new details about the order in which her state’s residents will be eligible for inoculations, and making people aged 65 to 74 years an earlier priority was the biggest shift.The state’s previous plan had that age group getting theirs after people in “congregate” living, such as state hospitals, shelters for the homeless, and prisons.[ COVID-19 IN KC: TRACKING CASES, DEATHS AND LATEST RESTRICTIONS ][ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT THE COVID-19 VACCINE ] The Associated Press contributed to this story.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
Kansas City metro area health officials are grappling with how to handle continuing case count increases after reopening businesses more than four months ago.
What you need to know:
- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Monday the state has 247,502 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and there have been 3,255 deaths since the outbreak started. Kansas is now only updating COVID-19 data on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Monday there have been 424,986 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the outbreak and 5,951 deaths.
MONDAY
12:30 p.m. — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported an increase of 5,180 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in its first update since Friday, pushing the statewide total to 247,502 since the outbreak started.
KDHE officials said Friday the death total grew by 107 to 3,255 and hospitalizations increased by 94 to 7,351 since the outbreak started.
Health officials said Monday that 40% (+8%) of ICU beds are available and 82% (+0%) of the state’s ventilators are available.
The state said it has tested 1,066,516 people with 819,014 negative test results and an overall monthly positive test rate of 12.7%.
[ KANSAS COVID-19 COVID-19 DASHBOARD ]
Sedgwick County has the highest total of confirmed cases since the start of the outbreak with 44,604. Johnson County is second with 43,450 cases. Wyandotte County is third with 16,794 cases. Leavenworth County has 5,512 cases, Douglas County reports 7,003 and Miami County has 2,113.
Health officials they are monitoring 373 active outbreak clusters with 212 clusters reported in long-term care facilities.
10:30 a.m. — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced 1,659 more COVID-19 cases have been reported in the state since Sunday’s update. These cases take the state’s total to 424,986 total confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic.
Three more deaths were also reported, taking the state’s death toll due to the coronavirus to 5,951.
[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]
Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
The state said it has tested a total of 3,830,281 and 113,320 were tested in the past seven days. There have been 19,496 positive cases and an average of 2,785 cases a day in the last week.
Looking at local numbers, the DHSS reported 32,799 (+50) confirmed cases in Kansas City, Missouri, and 25,548 (+164) cases in Jackson County. The state also lists 6,823 (+44) cases in Clay County, 6,122 (+27) in Cass County and 2,646 (+32) in Platte County.
9 a.m. — Dr. Dana Hawkinson with the University of Kansas Health System said the hospital is treating 123 total COVID-19 patients with 56 in recovery phase and 67 acute cases, including 23 that are in the ICU and 14 on ventilators.
7 a.m. — Kansas prisons ravaged by COVID-19 are set to be prioritized for vaccinations next — frustrating news for some lawmakers but welcome by inmates’ families and activists.
The state prison system — housing about 8,600 inmates — has reported 5,320 cases among offenders and an additional 1,076 among staff. Thirteen inmates and four staff members have died.
Gov. Laura Kelly confirmed Thursday that inmates would be vaccinated after health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities. She said they were being prioritized based on guidance from doctors and public health experts. The second group also will include people 65 and older and critical workers such as firefighters, law enforcement officers, meatpacking employees, grocery store workers, teachers and child care workers.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop, a Wichita Republican, said if it were “early in the game,” he’d say, “Let’s do it,” because the state pays for inmates’ medical care.
“With the percentage of occupants at a such high level already exposed and the antibodies are there for close to a year, I don’t know that it makes total sense,” Suellentrop said.
House Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr., an Olathe Republican, also criticized the plan to vaccinate inmates relatively early, saying, “We’re going to have a lot of discussion.”
But Nadine Johnson, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas, said the vaccines were critical.
“The virus has run rampant within Kansas’s crowded prisons and jails, but does not stop at those walls; it continues to threaten corrections staff and officers, their families, and communities statewide,” she said in a written statement, adding that some the inmates shouldn’t even be behind bars. “There are people incarcerated in our state’s correctional facilities for specious reasons founded in an unjust system. Their situation needs attention and action. Vaccination does not absolve that need.”
Deana Estrada, whose fiancé, Ronnie Loggins, got COVID-19 while incarcerated at the state prison in Lansing on drug and explosives charges, said the resistance to vaccinating inmates is “cruel.” Estrada, 34, said the prison outbreak has complicated efforts to treat Loggins for cancer. A clemency request is pending.
“They may have made bad choices and stuff, but obviously they didn’t do enough bad choices to make them be put on death row,” said Estrada, who lives in Junction City.
Demand for the vaccine is strong with the virus surging. Statewide the number of deaths rose by 121 from Wednesday to Friday, taking the state’s total to 3,148 or one case for every 925 of its 2.9 million residents. The number of confirmed cases rose by 5,504 to 242,322, or one for every 12 residents.
The rollout has been clunky at times. At Ellinwood Hospital in Barton County, there was confusion last week when the first shipment of 30 doses of the Moderna vaccine arrived without any notice. Staff hastily stowed them in the freezer before realizing they didn’t need to be kept at such cold temperatures and then had to call the manufacturer to see if they were still safe to administer. The verdict was yes.
Lindsey Bogner, the foundation and community education director at the small 25-bed rural hospital and nearby clinic, was among those who were immunized this week.
“The whole process there has been not as much communication as you would want, but that is probably normal in something like that that is being rolled out and is logistically very difficult to put together,” she sad. “It is hard to do, especially when you don’t have a very deep staff or you don’t have a lot of people to put toward it.”
Some health care workers have declined the vaccine for now, but Dr. Lee Norman, head of the state Department of Health and Environment, said they are in the minority.
He said this group, which he estimated made up about 20% of the health care workforce, typically forego the vaccine either because they want to wait longer to see that the vaccine is safe or because they’ve already had COVID-19 and “feel that they are immune and that they would rather have it go their colleagues.”
He said he believes there’s “only a very small number” of health care workers who don’t want to get the vaccine at all.
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SUNDAY
2:30 p.m. — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced 2,744 more COVID-19 cases have been reported in the state since Saturday’s update. These cases take the state’s total to 423,327 total confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic.
Four more deaths were also reported, taking the states death toll due to the coronavirus to 5,948.
[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]
Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
The state said it has tested a total of 3,819,153 and 103,696 were tested in the past seven days. There have been 18,437 positive cases and an average of 2,634 cases a day in the last week.
Looking at local numbers, the DHSS reported 32,740 (+295) confirmed cases in Kansas City, Missouri, and 25,384 (+205) cases in Jackson County. The state also lists 6,779 (+35) cases in Clay County, 6,095 (+65) in Cass County and 2,646 (+18) in Platte County.
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SATURDAY
7 p.m. — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported Saturday that the state has 420,583 total confirmed cases since the pandemic began. That number is an increase of 3,825 cases from Friday’s total.
There have now been 5,944 deaths linked to COVID-19 in Missouri, which up 32 from Friday’s total.
There have been 67 deaths reported in the last seven days.
[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]
Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
The state said it has tested a total of 3,798,436 and 101,358 were tested in the past seven days. There have been 18,570 positive cases and an average of 2,6953 cases a day in the last week.
Looking at local numbers, the DHSS reported 32,445 (+397) confirmed cases in Kansas City, Missouri, and 25,179 (+241) cases in Jackson County. The state also lists 6,744 (+141) cases in Clay County, 6,030 (+158) in Cass County and 2,628 (+107) in Platte County.
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FRIDAY
9:45 p.m. — The Kansas City Public Library said it has closed Plaza Branch at 4801 Main St. after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. Library officials said the staff member worked this week.
The Plaza Branch will reopen once the library can complete contact tracing, complete the cleaning, and ensure adequate staffing.
3:45 p.m. — The Mid-Continent Public Library said its East Lee’s Summit Branch at 2240 SE Blue Parkway is temporarily closed due to potential COVID-19 exposure. The book drop will remain open. Holds on materials that were available at the branch before the closure will be extended. The library said it is working with the Jackson County Health Department to determine additional next steps.
12:30 p.m. — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported an increase of 5,504 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in its first update since Wednesday, pushing the statewide total to 242,332 since the outbreak started.
KDHE officials said Friday the death total grew by 121 to 3,148 and hospitalizations increased by 144 to 7,257 since the outbreak started.
Health officials said Friday that 32% (+0%) of ICU beds are available and 82% (+1%) of the state’s ventilators are available.
The state said it has tested 1,051,207 people with 808,885 negative test results and an overall monthly positive test rate of 13.2%.
[ KANSAS COVID-19 COVID-19 DASHBOARD ]
Sedgwick County has the highest total of confirmed cases since the start of the outbreak with 43,349. Johnson County is second with 42,456 cases. Wyandotte County is third with 16,576 cases. Leavenworth County has 5,395 cases, Douglas County reports 6,810 and Miami County has 2,083.
Health officials they are monitoring 373 active outbreak clusters with 212 clusters reported in long-term care facilities.
11 a.m. — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported Friday that the state has 416,758 total confirmed cases since the pandemic began. That number is an increase of 4,332 cases from Wednesday’s total.
There have now been 5,912 deaths linked to COVID-19 in Missouri, which up 30 from Thursday’s total.
There have been 66 deaths reported in the last seven days.
[ MISSOURI COVID-19 DASHBOARD]
Missouri does not list how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
The state said it has tested a total of 3,773,583 and 97,577 were tested in the past seven days. There have been 18,187 positive cases and an average of 2,598 cases a day in the last week.
Looking at local numbers, the DHSS reported 32,048 (+339) confirmed cases in Kansas City, Missouri, and 24,938 (+686) cases in Jackson County. The state also lists 6,603 (+58) cases in Clay County, 5,872 (+57) in Cass County and 2,521 (+93) in Platte County.
9 a.m. — Dr. Dana Hawkinson with the University of Kansas Health System said Friday the hospital is treating 141 total COVID-19 patients with 70 in recovery phase and 71 acute cases, including 23 that are in the ICU and 15 on ventilators.
7 a.m. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced $68 million in federal aid for college construction projects and released close to $127 million he previously cut.
Parson last year blocked the state from spending nearly $450 million of its more than $35 billion budget after state finances took a hit from the coronavirus pandemic.
On Wednesday he said the state economy bounced back faster than expected, allowing much of the restricted money to now be spent.
Another $8.6 million is now available for state tourism, as well as $9.4 million for work programs for low-income families who receive state financial help.
Newly released funding also includes $14 million for state colleges and universities and more than $9 million for community colleges.
The state funding for colleges and universities is coupled with another $68 million from the federal government for Missouri schools to fix up old buildings. Parson said the money for university construction projects also will help put people back to work.
St. Louis Community College in Forest Park also received a $4 million federal grant to open an on-site childcare center for the first time.
6 a.m. — Kansas expects to finish giving COVID-19 vaccines to long-term care residents and health care workers by the end of this month and has moved people aged 65 and older into the next group to receive the shots. READ MORE
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday announced new details about the order in which her state’s residents will be eligible for inoculations, and making people aged 65 to 74 years an earlier priority was the biggest shift.
The state’s previous plan had that age group getting theirs after people in “congregate” living, such as state hospitals, shelters for the homeless, and prisons.
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The Associated Press contributed to this story.