Category: News
Misleading ‘highest COVID death rate’ claim is just KDHE reporting issue
Today’s Wichita Eagle story about Kansas having the highest COVID death rate in the nation last week is just another…
Microschools could offer solutions to frustrated parents
Parents frustrated by COVID school closures may soon be able to enroll students in neighborhood microschools in Kansas, according to…
School districts lose 12,000 students but add 46 managers
(Editor’s note – this article has been updated with a revised calculation of virtual enrollment; the original article showed a…
Wichita gym owner’s COVID lawsuit on hold, pending legislative solution
A lawsuit by a Wichita gym owner asking for payment from the State of Kansas for his lost revenue because…
Kansas vaccine distribution progress is the lowest in nation
Kansas ranks dead last among states and U.S. provinces in COVID vaccine distribution, according to a running tally collected by…
KMBC repeats false CNN claim on December COVID deaths
Updates of deaths attributed to COVID are based on when deaths are reported by health departments with considerable time lag…
Kelly administration contradicts media reports of post-Thanksgiving surge
Even though there wasn’t a Thanksgiving surge, Dr. Lee Norman, Kansas Secretary of Health and Environment, warned Kansans to avoid…
Kelly falsely credits mask mandate for getting COVID under control
Kansans received good news on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, as Kansas Governor Laura Kelly announced the spread of COVID-19 is…
Media misleads Kansans again about COVID deaths
The screaming headline in today’s Wichita Eagle inaccurately said “Kansas had worst county in US for COVID deaths per capita…
Officials adopt population priorities for the COVID vaccination
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended on Sunday that people 75 and older and frontline workers should…
WHO: labs should be wary of false positives from cycle thresholds
The World Health Organization (WHO) last week joined others in sounding an alarm about false positives being reported due to…
Outsourcing could make more money available for instruction in SMSD
The Shawnee Mission School District will ask voters to approve a property tax increase next January in order to hire…
KSHSAA board votes revealed on winter sports attendance
The minutes of the Kansas State High School Athletics Association December 8 vote to allow limited attendance at winter sports…
Controversial Commerce Secretary promoted to lieutenant governor
Gov. Laura Kelly tapped Commerce Secretary David Toland to serve as her lieutenant governor on Monday. Toland replaces Lt. Gov.…
Kansas Attorney General: legislators should meet in-person
As legislators prepare to return to Topeka for the 2021 session and safely deal with COVID-19, an opinion from Kansas…
Gym owner sues state, alleging shutdown commandeered his business
A Wichita gym owner is suing the State of Kansas over COVID lockdowns, claiming the shutdown earlier this year constituted…
ED visits for COVID, flu symptoms dropping below 2019
Data tracked by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment show that ED visits (emergency department) for COVID-like and influenza-like…
In pandemic’s 9th month, Gov. Kelly turns focus to nursing homes
Nine months after the start of the pandemic, Gov. Laura Kelly issued an executive order requiring testing protocols in Kansas…
Grant County Health Department issuing 24-day quarantines
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is relaxing quarantine requirements under certain circumstances from 10 and 14 days…
Doctors say health officials ignore early COVID treatments
There are four pillars of combatting a pandemic but state and federal officials are ignoring an important one — early…
Cycle threshold data required in Florida, Lenexa lab won’t release in KS
The state of Florida now requires labs to provide cycle threshold data on COVID tests, but one of the laboratories…
Preliminary CDC data shows likely increase in total deaths for 2020
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment claims to not know how many people have died so far this year,…
JoCo in, Wyandotte out of shortened CDC quarantine guidelines
The Centers for Disease Control issued new quarantine guidelines allowing shorter quarantine periods following close contact with a COVID-positive individual.…
KSHSAA board members who voted for, against spectators disclosed
Many members of the Kansas State High School Athletics Association Board of Directors (KSHSAA) who voted against having spectators for…