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4 additional TB cases now connected to initial case at Olathe Northwest

Four additional tuberculosis cases related to an initial case of an Olathe Northwest High School student earlier this month have been identified, according to the JCDHE.

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Kansas college paying staff $250 to get COVID-19 vaccines

Kansas college paying staff $250 to get COVID-19 vaccines
April 12, 2021
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Drive-thru vaccinations are given in a building on the Douglas County Fair Grounds in Lawrence, Kan., Wednesday, March 17, 2021. The fair grounds serves as a mass COVID-19 vaccination location.Orlin Wagner/AP
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' largest community college is paying staff members to get COVID-19 vaccinations, and one of the state's largest public school districts is making in-home coronavirus testing kits available to students who want them.
Johnson County Community College is paying employees $250 to get inoculated in the hopes of bringing more students back to campus in the fall, KMBC-TV reported. Spokesperson Chris Gray said the college sees it as “an innovative way to reinforce healthy decisions.”

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Kansas county chooses not to observe COVID 'emergency'

Kansas county chooses not to observe COVID 'emergency'
DION LEFLER and MICHAEL STAVOLA, The Wichita Eagle
March 20, 2021
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The Chautauqua County Commission and staff meet in a small room, unmasked, on Monday, March 8, 2021, in Sedan, Kan. This bucolic and remote county, nestled on the Oklahoma border 100 highway miles southeast of Wichita, is the only place in Kansas that isn’t under a COVID disaster emergency declaration, according to the Kansas Association of Counties. (Dion Lefler/The Wichita Eagle via AP)Dion Lefler/AP
SEDAN, Kan. (AP) — Greetings from Chautauqua, the only county in Kansas where COVID-19 isn’t an emergency.

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Governor: Kansas speeding up COVID shots to hit May target

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will give COVID-19 vaccinations faster than planned so that...

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Official: Kansas can handle 5 times as much COVID vaccine

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will give COVID-19 vaccinations faster than planned so that...

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GOP lawmaker pushes plan to undo Kansas policy on vaccines

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in Kansas outlined a measure Wednesday that...

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Report: 15% of Kansas residents have gotten COVID-19 vaccine

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Slightly more than 15% of Kansas residents have received at least...

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Kansas lawmakers hope for number on unemployment fraud cost

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers hope that a legislative audit to be released later...

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Top Kansas official expects 'pockets' of coronavirus variant

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is likely to have pockets of a new, more contagious...

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SC woman spends days registering for COVID vaccine after losing husband of 58 years

Vaccine Administration Management System (VAMS) took Columbia resident Jo Mooney a couple of days to figure out and complete her registration for her first shot.

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