A young couple is leaning on their faith, facing a physical battle as they grieve the death of their newborn daughter following an emergency C-section.
Ten days following the start of a temporary mask mandate for students in its elementary schools, the Andover school board held a meeting Monday night, Sept. 13.
The building opposition to President Biden’s vaccination order comes as school boards and elected officials see pushback to mask requirements at the local level.
At Wednesday’s county commission meeting, Dr. Garold Minns reported Wichita’s main hospitals are treating more children with serious cases of COVID-19 related illnesses.
The Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment shows 31 active clusters in K-thru-12 schools this week, up 10 from last week. The clusters account for 179 cases.
The Maize school board at a special meeting Tuesday, Sept. 7, voted in favor of a temporary mask mandate for students and staff in kindergarten through sixth grade, covering the district’s elementary and intermediate schools.
For the last few days, Kansas Health Department & Environment (KDHE) has been putting on vaccination and testing events at service stations on the turnpike.
Republic County Schools on Wednesday, Sept. 1, announced that due to the number of cases of COVID-19 in its junior/senior high school, there will be no school on Thursday or Friday for students in sixth through 12th grades.
With COVID-19 cases and exposures spiking, Sedgwick County is struggling with a familiar problem: long lines at testing clinics and growing waits to get results.
The school board said with the growing number of ill and quarantined students, the board will look at possible solutions for the loss of in-school learning time.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday, Aug. 27, announced a collaborative effort that makes it easier for Kansans to follow vaccination rates among healthcare workers at long-term care facilities in the state.
School districts in Wellington and Valley Center on Wednesday evening moved forward with plans to implement temporary mask mandates in response to spikes in cases within the schools.
On Thursday, Aug. 26, Eyewitness News spoke with students at Wichita North High School, some who say in the first weeks of school, they decided to get vaccinated against COVID-19 because of a local spread.
A pregnant Wichita area woman is home after being hospitalized with COVID-19. Tricia Lee said her symptoms were mild, but doctors took extra caution with her being eight months along.
As schools face more issues with COVID-19 outbreaks creating staffing problems at the beginning of the school year, many districts are looking to fill positions and hire substitutes.
A local medical certifier amended a death certificate months later in classifying the death as related to COVID-19, a Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment spokesperson clarified Wednesday.
The Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment’s update Wednesday shows 3,478 new cases since Monday, with 37 deaths reported and 101 new hospitalizations.
Wichita State will not mandate COVID-19 vaccines in the near future, despite the Pfizer vaccine receiving full approval by the FDA, a university spokeswoman said.
While hospitals in Kansas are facing challenges with a surge in COVID-19 patients dealing with the immediate impact of the virus, we’re hearing the story of a survivor who’s still struggling with the effects of her own infection, eight months later.
