Due to ongoing increases in the spread of respiratory viruses in our community, Wesley Healthcare has announced that it will implement additional visitor restrictions as of Monday, Dec. 12, 2022.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), partnering with a public charity of the national Rockefeller Foundation, is providing a second round of free at-home COVID-19 tests to households in every Kansas community.
he Sedgwick County Health Department announced that it is accepting appointments for anyone who is at least 5 years old to receive the updated COVID-19 vaccine.
After the Center for Disease Control recommended the first updated COVID-19 boosters, many have questions on who should be getting the new boosters and when.
While COVID-19 cases continue to trend downward, the lack of open beds and available staff have doctors in Northeast Kansas worried about the fall and winter seasons.
KDHE has partnered with The Rockefeller Foundation’s public charity, RF Catalytic Capital, and Project ACT to offer free at-home COVID-19 tests directly to Kansans in vulnerable communities.
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in Sedgwick County, officials at the health department are recommending that masks be worn indoors in public.
COVID-19 cases in Sedgwick County have been rising since mid-May. The percentage was 5.6 percent in mid-May. Currently, the percentage of tests coming back positive is 17.5 percent.
As COVID-19 numbers continue to decline statewide and across the nation, Governor Laura Kelly and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) announced Thursday that Kansas is pivoting from an emergency pandemic response to endemic normalcy.
Kansas has reached an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) confirming state employees who survey CMS-funded facilities within Kansas will not enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandates as part of those surveys.
The measure also limits pharmacists’ ability to refuse to fill prescriptions for drugs such as the anti-worm treatment ivermectin as COVID-19 treatments.
COVID-19 numbers across Kansas and Sedgwick County continue to dwindle with the percentage of positive COVID tests in the county at 1.7 percent. Hospitalizations are also at the lowest they’ve been since last summer.
In honor of the 8,003 lives lost due to COVID-19, and the families they left behind, Governor Laura Kelly has directed flags be lowered to half-staff throughout the state effective immediately to sundown March 11, 2022.
The U.S. Senate has passed a resolution introduced by Senator Roger Marshall to ban the CMS COVID-19 vaccine mandate from taking effect and now heads to the House of Representatives.
Kansas’s Attorney General has urged courts to reopen litigation into one of the nation’s four COVID-19 vaccine mandates currently entangled in legal battles.
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