COVID-19 Highlights for the Week of 10/18/21: What’s Happening? Kudos to all — mitigation measures are paying off with lower cases, deaths, and hospitalizations. Schools are facing food shortages due
Read more COVID-19 Highlights for the Week of 10/4/21: What’s Happening? Although cases and hospital admissions are modestly declining, this is not the time to relax our efforts and mitigation measures; Communities within our
Read more COVID-19 Highlights for the Week of 10/4/21: What’s Happening? The biggest limiting factor in the entire healthcare system continues to be unfilled staff positions and, in particular, Registered Nurses and
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Public health directors: Eligible residents encouraged to get COVID-19 booster shot Leer este artículo en español Public health directors in the Kansas City region are encouraging eligible Pfizer vaccine recipients
Read more COVID-19 Highlights for the Week of 9/27/21: What’s Happening? The biggest limiting factor in the entire healthcare system continues to be unfilled staff positions. Pediatric infections remain concerningly high. Studies and our
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KC doctors answer vaccine questions in new videos A new video project from Vaccinate KC features local doctors answering some of the biggest questions related to COVID-19 vaccines and sharing
Read more COVID-19 Highlights for the Week of 9/20/21: What’s Happening? The 7-day rolling average of new hospital admissions for patients with COVID is down to 106 from a peak of 167 in mid-August. The
Read more COVID-19 Highlights for the Week of 9/13/21: What’s Happening? The biggest limiting factor in the entire healthcare system continues to be unfilled staff positions. ICU bed use by patients with
Read more COVID-19 Highlights for the Week of 9/3/21: What’s Happening? The biggest limiting factor in the entire healthcare system continues to be unfilled staff positions. ICU bed use by patients with
Read more COVID-19 Highlights for the Week of 8/31/21: What’s Happening? ICU beds used by COVID patients are at an all-time high and deaths related to COVID-19 continue to rise. Majority of
Read more The Kansas City Region COVID-19 Data Hub displays regional and jurisdictional data regarding COVID-19 cases, deaths, tests, vaccinations and hospitalizations. For hospitalization data, hospitals are grouped into the jurisdiction where
Read more What is HHS TeleTracking? At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a push for national data capture across the United States to aggregate and share hospital data. This
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