Kansas City COVID Levels Earn 'High' Ranking Again And Nobody Cares

The masks are mostly completely gone and concert season has been better than most had hoped.

Meanwhile . . . The dire public health warnings persist. 

Here's the latest . . .

"Jackson County, Missouri, and Wyandotte County, Kansas, returned to the high level of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 Community Levels Tracker Thursday. Both counties improved last week to the medium level after holding steady at the high level the two weeks prior.As of Aug. 11, Johnson County, Kansas, remains in the low category."

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The community levels tracker is based on data of new cases per 100,000 from Aug. 4-10, as well as new hospital admissions and the percentage of COVID patients in inpatient beds from Aug. 3-9.

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Jackson, Wyandotte counties return to CDC's 'high' COVID level

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Jackson County, Missouri, and Wyandotte County, Kansas, returned to the high level of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID-19 Community Levels Tracker Thursday. Both counties improved last week to the medium level after holding steady at the high level the two weeks prior.

With new guidance, CDC ends test-to-stay for schools and relaxes COVID rules

With the coronavirus continuing to spread widely throughout the country, Americans are getting new advice from federal health officials on how to live with the virus. The revised guidance - released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday - lifts the requirement to quarantine if exposed to the virus, deemphasizes screening people with no symptoms and updates COVID-19 protocols in schools, eliminating a recommendation for test-to-stay after potential exposure.

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