Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas lifts COVID-19 emergency order after new CDC guidance Bill Lukitsch, The Kansas City Star
May 14 After the city has spent more than a year living under pandemic restrictions aimed toward stemming the spread of COVID-19, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced the city is fully lifting its emergency order.
The mayor said the order will be rescinded by noon Friday. He added that the city will now shift its efforts toward encouraging residents to become fully vaccinated and ensuring those needing access to vaccines are able to get them. We thank the many individuals and businesses in Kansas City who have worked hard to keep us all safe over the past fourteen months, the mayor said in the statement. We saved lives looking out for each other and all in Kansas City should be proud of the steps we have taken to protect our community s health.
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Temperature checks and limited attendance are two of the safeguards at in-person Sunday services that recently resumed at St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Missouri.
Addressing the mistrust and health care access problems faced by African Americans will take more than big vaccination events, some experts say.
Throughout Missouri s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, data have shown wide disparities in the vaccination rates of different racial and ethnic groups and while recent weeks have shown some improvement, many gaps remain.
Although vaccine hesitancy runs high in many African American neighborhoods, critics say the state’s inadequate efforts to reach those vulnerable communities have added to issues of mistrust and lack of health care access that are keeping vaccination rates low.
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