Following new recommendations from the state and Sedgwick County, the Derby Board of Education addressed additional changes to its COVID protocols at a special meeting on Jan. 18. In line with the changes, the school board voted to not assist with contact tracing per its protocols and update…
Following new recommendations from the state and Sedgwick County, the Derby Board of Education addressed additional changes to its COVID protocols at a special meeting on Jan. 18. In line with the changes, the school board voted to not assist with contact tracing per its protocols and update…
With the growing prevalence of the omicron variant, COVID cases have ramped up again both nationally and locally early on in 2022.
TOPEKA – Amid concerns COVID-19 will worsen as the temperature drops, Kansas hospital leaders are warning of rapidly rising case numbers leading to poor outcomes and limiting bed space.
On Oct. 4, the Sedgwick County Health Department (SCHD) COVID-19 testing clinic will relocate to 4115 E. Harry St. in Wichita.
Sedgwick County’s mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic will return to Derby on Oct. 12. It will be operating from 3 to 7 p.m. at Madison Avenue Central Park.
TOPEKA (AP) – Leaders of the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature on Monday agreed to create a committee to examine the impact of COVID-19 mandates and what they called government overreach, partly in response to Democratic President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine requirements.
Beginning Sept. 29, no-cost Pfizer COVID-19 booster vaccines will be offered by the Sedgwick County Health Department (SCHD) at the community vaccine clinic at 223 S. Main in Wichita (former downtown library building).
LAWRENCE – Researchers at the University of Kansas are aiming to place on the commercial market in early 2022 an in-home, saliva-based testing unit for COVID-19.
TOPEKA (AP) – Kansas hospitals will receive $50 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds for extra pay for nurses to keep them on the job but will be required to report monthly on how many nurses they’ve lost and why under a plan a state task force approved Sept. 10.
TOPEKA – Gov. Laura Kelly is urging a new COVID-19 school safety workgroup to focus on policies that will not only keep Kansas children and staff healthy but in the classroom, after hundreds of infections were reported in school districts across the state.Kelly established the Safer Classroo…
The city of Derby is collaborating with Sedgwick County to host two upcoming COVID-19 vaccine clinics.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday is announcing sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to increase COVID-19 vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant that is killing thousands each week and jeopardizing …
Derby Public Schools' on-site testing site at the Educational Support Center, 222 E. Madison Ave., is now in operation.The ESC was up and running on Aug. 30, with the district planning to open Carlton and Wineteer as two more testing facilities once it has hired the necessary staff.The on-si…
A new masking protocol at Derby Public Schools means specific schools and departments in the district will have to mask up when 6% or more of their students and staff are absent due to COVID-19 cases and quarantines.
The Derby Board of Education will hold a special meeting on Sept. 3 at the USD 260 Administrative Center, 1550 E. Walnut Grove Rd.
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