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Kansas plan could give $500M in COVID relief to businesses JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer May 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9Kansas state Rep. Rui Xu, D-Westwood, holds his 18-month-old daughter, Astra, during a break in the House's work, Friday, May 7, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Lawmakers are working late as they tried to finish their business for the year.John Hanna/APShow MoreShow Less 2of9Kansas state Sen. Kellie Warren, R-Leawood, talks to reporters about COVID-19 legislation during a break in the Senate's session, Friday, May 7, 2021, at the Statehouse in ...

Kansas seeks 9% of allowed vaccine doses, ponders COVID laws JOHN HANNA, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has requested less than 9% of its federal allocation of COVID-19 vaccine doses for this week, as Republican state lawmakers try to revive proposals to ban government vaccine passports and restore limits on tracing the close contacts of people exposed to the virus. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's office said Thursday that the state asked for fewer than 14,000 vaccine doses for the week, out of a federal allotment of almost 162,000. While the state sought it...

A lengthy bill overhauling Kansas' emergency management laws in light of the COVID-19 pandemic passed out of the Kansas Legislature on Tuesday and will head to the governor's desk. The bill, a compromise between the House and Senate, deals with multiple issues and was a product of days of intense negotiations between the two chambers. "This was probably the most extreme example of compromise that I've seen in my seven years," said Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita. "When we started out on this ... I thought there was no way we ever would reconcile the House and Senate versions." Both versions...

Error forces Kansas hospital to throw out 570 vaccines doses By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNAMarch 12, 2021 GMT MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas hospital had to throw away 570 doses of a coronavirus vaccine because of a refrigeration mistake, officials say. Lawrence Memorial Hospital said in a news release that city and county health officials transferred the doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the hospital on Wednesday. The hospital then put them in a freezer, not realizing they were thawed. Confusion arose because most doses are shipped frozen, but the health department had rece...

From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Homewood: State regulators have suspended the alcohol license of a Birmingham-area bar over alleged violations of the state’s pandemic health order in what an official described as the first such case under COVID-19 rules. Regulators accused Grocery Brewpub in Homewood of violating rules about face mask requirements, occupancy limits and social distancing, Alabama ABC spokesman Dean Argo told WBMA-TV. The emergency suspension issued Tuesday was Alabama’s first license suspension linked to pandemic health rules, he said. Photos shared recentl...