Kansas City COVID-19 Daily Briefing for Dec. 15
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
COVID-19
and last updated 2020-12-15 12:57:29-05
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â 41 Action News is offering a daily recap of COVID-19 related stories from across Kansas City and the country. Check back every morning for the latest developments.
Kansas officials discuss vaccine next steps
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Dr. Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, joined a daily briefing on Tuesday with doctors from the University of Kansas Health System to discuss the next steps for vaccine distribution in the state.
Norman said that as more shipments of the vaccines arrive, there will be a wider distribution across the state. The first wave will include health care workers and those in nursing homes.
Harrison County, Missouri, school districts prepare for new mask mandate to take effect
5 districts in county don t have have mandates
Harrison County, Missouri has five school districts: North and South Harrison, Cainsville, Ridgeway and Gilman City. As of Dec. 14, none of them have mask mandates on campus. But thatâs about to change.
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HARRISON COUNTY, Mo. â Most schools around the Kansas City area have mask mandates in place to fight the spread of COVID-19. But others donât require masks on campus at all.
Harrison County, Missouri has five school districts: North and South Harrison, Cainsville, Ridgeway and Gilman City. As of Dec. 14, none of them have mask mandates on campus.
Missouri school district with no mask mandate sees hundreds of quarantines in 1st semester
Masks are not required at South Harrison schools.
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BETHANY, Mo. â Nearly every school in the Kansas City area requires students and staff to wear masks on campus. But that s not the case across the state of Missouri.
As of early December, none of Harrison County, Missouri s five districts had required masks, but that s soon changing. We have several students, several faculty and staff, that decide to wear a mask, said Dennis Eastin, superintendent at South Harrison R-II in Bethany. It is personally up to them.
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