The numbers are clear — COVID cases in Kansas reached an unprecedented peak in January. Local Wichita hospitals were not spared. “Over the last several weeks, we’ve seen numbers of hospitalizations that were even higher than the peak from 2020,” Dr. Samer Antonios, chief clinical officer at Ascension Via Christi, said in January during an event […]
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Our Pandemic Year: Kansas City reflects on COVID-19
From stories of loss to stories of hope, Kansas City residents open up about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their lives.
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As testing ramps up, local health officials seek to slow coronavirus so hospitals aren’t overrun
So far, Kansas and Missouri seem to have been relatively spared from coronavirus and the illness it causes, COVID-19.