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Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 7:12 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The White House announced Tuesday that U.S. households can request an additional eight free at-home tests to be shipped by the U.S. Postal Service.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 2:17 PM CDT
|By Zoe Brown
The Johnson County Department of Health and Environment says their walk-in clinic in Mission will be opening again on May 9.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2022 at 2:30 PM CDT
|By Nick Sloan
Beginning next week, masks will be optional inside the Kansas City, KS School District.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 9:27 PM CDT
|By Emily Rittman
If an individual school exceeds the 5% COVID-related absences threshold, that building will temporarily return to the mask requirement.
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Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 5:36 PM CDT
|By Zoe Brown and Emily Rittman
Update: The Shawnee Mission Board of Education has voted for an option that will require temporary masking if a school has at least 5% COVID-related absences.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 2:04 PM CDT
|By KCTV5 Staff
The Kansas hospital is celebrating having no COVID patients in two years.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2022 at 8:24 AM CDT
|By Greg Dailey
To celebrate, several staffers broke a coronavirus-shaped pinata
Updated: Mar. 31, 2022 at 3:04 PM CDT
|By Zoe Brown
Today, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly announced that the state will be shifting from "emergency pandemic response to endemic normalcy.”
Updated: Mar. 30, 2022 at 6:08 PM CDT
|By Micah Bray
"Signature walls" inside a Kansas City, Kansas vaccine clinic will be placed in a museum after the clinic closed its doors Wednesday, March 30.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2022 at 3:51 PM CDT
|By Greg Dailey
The governor said the state’s response to the pandemic will transition to that of an endemic beginning April 1
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Updated: Mar. 29, 2022 at 4:18 PM CDT
|By Zoe Brown
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt have joined a 21-state effort to end the mask mandate in place on public transportation.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 at 3:51 PM CDT
|By Jackson Hicks
A local hospital system is celebrating a “rare moment”: zero Covid patients in their intensive care units.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2022 at 12:14 PM CDT
|By Shain Bergan
With Kansas City area COVID numbers cratering in recent weeks, the Wyandotte County Health Department is shuttering its mass testing and vaccination site.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2022 at 4:17 PM CDT
|By Zoe Brown
People no longer need an appointment in order to get a COVID-19 vaccination at the clinic in Mission.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2022 at 1:58 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
There is no longer a State of Emergency in Independence, Missouri.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2022 at 1:32 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
The governor has directed flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of the more than 8,000 Kansans who've died due to COVID.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 6:13 PM CST
|By Abby Dodge
According to the Mid-America Regional Council. at its peak there were an average of 4,300 new cases each week. Those cases have dropped to 610.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2022 at 7:43 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
For more than a year and a half, a Kansas husband, father and grandfather fought to come back home from the hospital.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2022 at 5:00 PM CST
|By Angie Ricono
Monday afternoon, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed lawsuits against nine more school districts over their mask mandates. These are in addition to the 36 districts he sued last week.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2021 at 5:45 PM CDT
|By Angie Ricono
It’s a frightening place to be. Right now, Missouri leads the nation with the most new cases of Covid-19 per capita in the past 14 days. And some health experts are warning it could be getting worse.