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More than 3,000 Kansans have died from COVID-19 Overall, the state has had over 236,800 cases and over 3,000 deaths from the virus. To put it into context, it took seven months for Kansas to reach the first 1,000 deaths, and six weeks since then for Kansas to reach 2,000. It took just another three to four weeks to reach 3,000 deaths. This comes as the New York Times had put Kansas as having the highest death rate from the virus in the nation. In the state's weekly regional update to the governor and legislative leaders in the State Finance Council, Wichita community leader Jon Rolph said t...

Steve Morgan spent part of Christmas morning as the chaplain on duty in a Wichita hospital comforting the family of a patient who died and said he knows from personal experience how a death on a holiday means “you'll always remember that.”

John Hanna, Associated Press Topeka — Steve Morgan spent part of Christmas morning as the chaplain on duty in a Wichita hospital comforting the family of a patient who died and said he knows from personal experience how a death on a holiday means “you’ll always remember that.” But Morgan, an ordained United Methodist minister for more than 25 years, also reflected on what he sees as hospital workers’ sense of purpose on the Christian celebration of Jesus’ birth. He called it a day “about faith and unity and family.” “Because we have received love and grace and mercy, we can ...

Between Monday and Wednesday, Kansas reported 5,089 new COVID-19 cases, 59 deaths and 157 new hospitalizations. In total, the state now has more than 209,000 cases recorded and more than 2,500 deaths. The update came, however, after the state said in a news conference Tuesday that spread of the virus is "under control," with Kansas seeing a sub-one coronavirus reproductive factor combined with a downward trend for the first time since May. "Based on effective reproduction rate, we know that successful implementation has led to control of the spread of the virus in Kansas for the first time ...

Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector photo by: Screen capture by Kansas Reflector Wichita restaurateur and community leader Jon Rolph is leading weekly calls with regional health care leaders and reporting back to the State Finance Council. TOPEKA — Feedback from medical care providers through a new regional reporting system provides insight into the severity of stress the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on hospitals across the state. In Abilene, a chief nurse reported this week there were two patients on CPAP machines, which regulate air pressure ventilation, but the staff had never used the machi...