COVID-19 LIVE UPDATES: Missouri reports 34% of the population has received at least one dose © Provided by KMBC Kansas City COVID-19 live updates
The Kansas City metro area continues to reopen as more and more of the population gets the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Friday the state has 305,861 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and there have been 4,953 deaths since the outbreak started. Overall the state said 35% of the population has been vaccinated with at least one dose. Kansas is now only updating COVID-19 data on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Friday there have been 496,157 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the outbreak and 8,635 deaths. Overall, the state said 34% of the population has received at least one dose and 22.9% have completed vaccination. Sign up for our Newsletters
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COVID-19 cases have been increasing in Pennsylvania, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows it has one of the highest per capita case counts in the nation over the past week. Even so, Wolf s administration said it “has no plans at this time to reinstitute any shutdown orders. It instead noted that mask-wearing, gathering limits and social distancing remain required as the state gradually reopens.
Other governors also are staying on course to reopen society as they simultaneously expand vaccine eligibility, potentially complicating President Joe Biden s efforts to conquer the pandemic.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has pleaded unsuccessfully with the Biden administration to redirect more vaccine doses to her state as it struggles with the nation s highest COVID-19 case rate. But the CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said Monday that vaccines wouldn t immediately quell a surge because they take up to six weeks to take full effect.
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In this Feb. 13 photo, people dine in at the restaurant L’Express in New York. A recent spike in coronavirus cases in some states has led one of the nation’s top health experts to suggest that governors could “close things down” like they did during previous surges. But that doesn’t appear likely to happen not even in states led by Democratic governors who favored greater restrictions in the past. (AP photo)
When one of the nation’s top health officials this week suggested states dealing with a spring spike of coronavirus cases should “shut things down,” the remark landed with a thud.