The state hit the mark one day after the Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced that a particularly contagious variant of COVID-19 that is sweeping through Brazil has been detected for the first time in Kansas.

About 5,800 people who have been vaccinated against coronavirus have become infected anyway, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells CNN.

If you're wondering whether an amusement park is a safe place to have fun after more than a year of pandemic struggles, know that the answer isn't black-and-white.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment's announcement Tuesday that the P.1 variant has been detected in Sedgwick County means the state now has all three of the most widely spread variants.

Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine will remain in limbo a while longer.

The Missouri tourist town of Branson is ditching its mask mandate early after electing a new mayor who ran on platform that called for doing away with it.

Health officials for Kansas and Missouri said both states are pausing the administration of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen vaccine against COVID-19, after the CDC and FDA recommended the move because of blood-clotting concerns.

Have you had the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine within the last month?

Researchers are seeing a trend of consistent genetic makeup of COVID-19 variants in wastewater samples.

One encouraging sign that the pandemic-time panic among consumers is abating: Americans are no longer hoarding toilet paper, kitchen towels and wipes.