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Lee Norman, the Kansas City-area physician who served as Gov. Laura Kelly's point lead for Kansas throughout the pandemic, has resigned from his cabinet post as head of the Department of Health and Environment. Norman, a longtime physician and former…
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Since peaking at 308,000 new cases on January, and driving that week's rolling 7-day average for new COVID-19 cases to more than 256,000 a day, the nation has seen a sharp reduction in new infections. By early March, the rolling…
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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has announced her administration’s final COVID-19 distribution order for population groups in Kansas. The vaccine will be administered in five phases, beginning with those most at risk of contracting or becoming seriously ill from COVID-19 and…
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New figures from the U.S. Department of Labor show that in the week ending August 1, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 1,186,000, a decrease of 249,000 from the previous week's revised level. The report includes information…
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A surge in violent crime on both sides of Missouri has prompted Gov. Mike Parson to announce the expansion of Kansas City-based Operation LeGend to St. Louis. Parson revealed plans to expand in a Thursday news conference in St. Louis…
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The good news, to people starving for some amid the carnage of the COVID-19 pandemic, is that in this region, the caseloads appear to be tapering off. A number of metrics reinforce that: The Web site rt.live, created by a pair…
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Nearly two months into the COVID-19 outbreak in America, with 74,000 deaths recorded by the Centers for Disease Control, the Kansas City region is at an inflection point on multiple levels: With the finances of its health-care delivery system. With…
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Years of mission trips around the world have exposed Dr. Gary Morsch to health-care delivery that would be considered abysmal by American standards. The standards, though, have been rewritten by the COVID-19 crisis. By the halfway point of a two-week…
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Free Webinar on COVID-19 Hiring Guidelines Employers looking to hire quickly during the current COVID-19 pandemic will need to pay attention to special guidelines coming from federal regulators. To help them navigate those rules, an Overland…
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It's no April Fool's joke: Sprint Corp., once the crown jewel of business and employment in the Kansas City region, is no more. T-Mobile US announced today that it has officially completed its merger with Sprint Corp. In its place…
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