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How Sedgwick County Teamed With The Black Community To Fight The Pandemic


KLC Journal
The news of her brother’s death wasn’t unexpected. But mid-March 2020 would prove to be an extremely unusual time for Margaret, an African American woman in her 70s living in Wichita, and for her family to bury a loved one.
The novel coronavirus was beginning to reach Kansas. Just hours after Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly issued an emergency declaration in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kansas recorded its first death linked to the disease.
In about a week, Margaret would learn just how close to home the pandemic would hit, when she became Sedgwick County’s first confirmed case of COVID-19. The Journal is withholding her real name at her request to protect her privacy but has verified details of her account through hospital discharge papers and interviews with friends and family members. ....

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2 Kansas counties drop mask rules; arena hosts COVID-19 shots | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas


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A man wears masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as he looks at a holiday display on a mild day Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020, in a park in Lenexa.
TOPEKA Two northeastern Kansas counties are backing off mask mandates they imposed last month as coronavirus cases surged, and officials set up a clinic in an arena in the state’s largest city to vaccinate thousands of health care workers.
Against the advice of public health officials, county commissioners in Brown and Jackson counties dropped mandates requiring people to wear masks, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported. But in south-central Kansas, Reno County commissioners kept a mask mandate in place. ....

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