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With the number of coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassing 300,000, social media posts claim, “A virus DID NOT kill 300,000 Americans. Old age did. Pharmaceuticals did. Processed foods did. Pesticides did. Hospitals & Ventilators did. Lack of proper nutrition, sunlight & exercise did.” Some of these things can contribute to pre-existing conditions that make serious illness from COVID-19 more likely. These deaths, however, were triggered by the novel coronavirus.
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As stated here on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)” page, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned for 6% of recorded U.S. coronavirus deaths. In other words, more than 16,500 of the more than 276,061 processed death certificates included in the CDC’s provisional death count had only C
In Kansas City metro, Johnson County stands out for its more relaxed pandemic restrictions
But while most area counties are working in coordination like they did earlier in the pandemic, county commissioners in Johnson County, Kansas, have imposed laxer gathering limits and gym restrictions than the rest of the metro.
“State lines, county lines and city lines are nothing more than street names. It takes leadership and all of us our entire region to slow the spread,” said Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Quinton Lucas to The Beacon through a spokesperson.
Lucas has expressed his frustration with the lack of consistency in rules across the metro, thanking Platte County for joining “our metro-wide (except Johnson County, KS) COVID-19 mitigation orders,” and then tweeting that full bars in Johnson County could present a metro challenge.