During the first week of the Kansas legislative session, the No. 1 priority for the Legislature is to extend the state s COVID-19 disaster emergency declaration before it expires Jan. 26.
The urgency has been underscored by the speed lawmakers are moving with to pass two bills ― for some, maybe a bit too fast. I ve not seen, and I don t think we ve seen before, a bill that moved with such expediency, said Sen. David Haley, D-Kansas City. I daresay it is abnormal and it lends a certain question as to how fairly it can be deliberated and considered. This is a very crucial issue in terms of the public health.
Heather Hollingsworth and John Hanna, Associated Press
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Dr. Lee Norman, head of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, answers questions about the COVID-19 pandemic during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
TOPEKA (AP) Coronavirus hospitalizations have fallen in Kansas from their high last month and staffing is under less strain as the shaky vaccine rollout gains momentum, although overall case numbers remain stubbornly high.
Kansas Department of Health and Environment data shows that 889 adults were hospitalized with confirmed or suspected cases as of Tuesday, down 30% from a high of 1,282 on Dec. 2. It was the lowest COVID-19 patient count since early November, when the numbers began creeping steadily upward.
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One of the biggest myths about educating kids during the pandemic is that it has been cheaper for schools, said Ann Mah, the District 4 representative on the Kansas State Board of Education.
In a wildly disruptive year for schools, Mah said schools have been hard-pressed to adapt to several challenges, ranging from obtaining devices and broadband access for students learning remotely to providing meals to students when they aren t at school. And although 80% of Kansas school districts were in in-person learning for the better part of the fall semester, many of the state’s urban and suburban districts which make up the majority of Kansas students remained in hybrid or remote learning for much of the fall.
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