KANSAS CITY COVID STATS DOUBLE!!!

The pandemic numbers look dire going into the "dark winter" promised by Prez Joe Biden.

Accordingly . . .

Here's a stolen passage quote regarding the numbers from a lesser blog . . .

COVID-19 cases and deaths rose significantly in the past week in the Kansas City area. In the last seven days, 44 people died from COVID-19 in the metro. That’s more than double the previous week’s death toll of 19.

As of Tuesday, the rolling average of new COVID-19 cases across the metro area is around 748 per day over seven days, according to data tracked by The Star. That’s higher than last week’s average of 732 and each of the five weeks prior. Forty-four people have died from COVID-19 around Kansas City in the past week, bringing the death total up to 3,301 since the pandemic began.

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COVID-19 LOCAL UPDATES: Missouri reports 1,800 new cases Tuesday

Here are the latest COVID-19 updates around the Kansas City metro area, and in Kansas and Missouri: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14MISSOURI: TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES: 769,314 (+1,800) CONFIRMED DEATHS: 12,797 (+71) 7-DAY PERCENT POSITIVE: 12.5% TOTAL VACCINE DOSES ADMINISTERED: 7,561,018 PERCENT OF POPULATION WITH 1 DOSE: 59.5% PERCENT OF POPULATION WITH 2

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