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By Noah Taborda At Olathe Health, staff continue to rely on contract workers to fill vital roles left vacant by employees who left the field or retired amid pandemic pressures. While they meet hospitals' urgent needs, these contract workers are expensive,...
The summer vacation from thinking about respiratory illness is now officially over, and local health care providers say it’s time to begin making a plan to minimize or even stave off the COVID-19, influenza and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus)...
The Johnson County commission on Thursday voted to put an official end to some health recommendations that were adopted during the earliest years of the COVID-19 pandemic. In two resolutions, commissioners voted to end the local disaster emergency and all...
Nearly three years after the initial onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city of Shawnee has adopted new rules saying it will not enforce future Johnson County health orders having to do with masks, vaccines and social distancing. In a...
Starting Monday, the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment will offer the newest COVID-19 booster shot, which aims to protect agains the latest Omicron subvariants of the disease. Why it matters: The new "bivalent" COVID-19 booster, which was authorized...
COVID-19 case numbers are down in Johnson County, moving the county back from "high" to "low" community spread risk levels in the span of a week. Where are cases now? The most recent county data shows a 23% positivity rate for...
As COVID-19 cases see another uptick in Johnson County, the monkeypox virus remains a much less urgent concern, according to county health officials. Driving the news: At this week's Board of County Commissioners meeting, public health officials gave a community...
For the first time since the winter, Johnson County is once again at "high" risk of community levels for COVID-19, according to the CDC. Why it matters: Johnson County entered the medium-risk level in early July, and by July 14...
Johnson County is no longer categorized as a low-risk community level for COVID-19. What's changed? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention once again lists Johnson County as having a "medium" level of risk, per the agency’s COVID-19 data tracker. ...
COVID-19 vaccines are now available for Johnson County's youngest residents. What happened: Over the weekend, the CDC officially gave the green light for children between six months and five years old to receive either the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. ...
Kansans who have been victims of pandemic relief-related fraud, including some Johnson Countians, may soon have a longer window in which to potentially seek justice.  What happened: On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two bills co-sponsored by Democratic...
According to the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment, local COVID-19 cases are again on the rise as the newest subvariant of Omicron, known as BA.2, continues to spread. The numbers: As of Friday morning, the county's COVID-19 dashboard...