Kansas City Avoids COVID Surge For Now

The numbers are up and NOBODY is wearing a mask anymore.

Meanwhile, thankfully, health pros report that our cowtown has avoided the brunt of the recent uptick:

The University of Kansas Health System is treating 18 patients with active COVID-19 infections, up from six at this time last week. Three of these patients are in the ICU, and one is on a ventilator.

“Although we haven’t seen a large trend in the increasing recorded cases… we have seen a significant increase in the number of people hospitalized at the Health System,” said Dr. Dana Hawkinson, the hospital’s medical director of infectious disease prevention and control. “But overall, those numbers continue to be much lower than they were in the most recent surge.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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