The Unified Government COVID-19 webpage reported 5,597 positive cumulative COVID-19 cases at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, an increase of 46 cases since Saturday. (From UG COVID-19 webpage)
The Unified Government COVID-19 webpage reported 5,597 positive cumulative COVID-19 cases at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, an increase of 46 cases since Saturday.
There were no new deaths reported, the total number remained at 111 in Wyandotte County.
Free testing offered
Free COVID-19 testing is planned from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 24, at Oak Ridge Baptist Church, 9301 Parallel Parkway, Kansas City, Kansas, through Vibrant Health and the Health Equity Task Force.
Free testing also is offered from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Unified Government Health Department parking lot at 6th and Ann, Kansas City, Kansas. For more information, call 311.
Wyandotte County is under a mandatory mask order and is in Phase 3 of the state’s reopening plan. For more information, residents may visit the UG COVID-19 website athttps://alpha.wycokck.org/Coronavirus-COVID-19-Informationor call 311 for more information.
A 14-day map of Zip Code areas of Wyandotte County showed the most COVID-19 cases recently were in Zip Code 66102, with 185. (Map from UG COVID-19 hub)Wyandotte County reported 5,549 COVID-19 cases and 111 deaths on Saturday, Aug. 22. (From UG COVID-19 webpage)
Where are the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases in Wyandotte County? Cases are found all over the county, according to a 14-day Zip Code map of cases.
According to a Unified Government COVID-19 webpage map, the highest numbers of cases over the past 14 days have been in the 66102 Zip Code area, which reported 185. The map is at https://wyandotte-county-covid-19-hub-unifiedgov.hub.arcgis.com/.
The 66104 area reported 104 cases, and the 66106 area reported 97, according to the COVID-19 webpage map.
Next was the 66109 area, with 76 cases, followed by 66103 with 65 cases and 66101 with 62 cases, according to the map.
The 66112 area had 33 cases, followed by the 66111 area with 19 cases, the 66012 area with 13 cases and the 66105 area with 10 cases, according to the map.
The map of the last 14 days is different from the map of all positive cases in Wyandotte County, but 66102 also leads the overall map with 1,506 cases. Next is 66104 with 921 cases, followed by 66106 with 697, 66101 with 598, 66102 with 522 and 66112 with 448.
Wyandotte County reported 5,549 cumulative COVID-19 cases and 111 deaths at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, according to the Unified Government COVID-19 webpage.
The KC Region COVID-19 Resource Hub reported 29,687 positive cumulative COVID-19 cases on Saturday, Aug. 22, with 449 cumulative deaths in the nine-county area.
Johnson County had 7,167 cumulative cases with 110 cumulative deaths, according to the KC Region hub. Leavenworth County reported 1,569 cumulative cases and 9 deaths, according to the hub.
Kansas City, Missouri, reported 7,719 positive cumulative COVID-19 cases and 87 cumulative deaths, according to the hub.
On Friday, the state of Kansas reported a total of 36,856 cumulative COVID-19 cases with 419 total deaths, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Sedgwick County (the Wichita area) had 6,386 total cases, according to KDHE.
The 7-day rolling average of positive COVID-19 cases in Wyandotte County has shown that the trend has been decreasing in the past week. (From UG COVID-19 webpage)A chart on the KC Region COVID-19 dashboard showed Wyandotte County with the highest number of cases per 100,000 persons in the metropolitan area. (Chart from KC Region COVID-19 dashboard)A chart on the KC Region COVID-19 dashboard showed the weekly new case totals for the nine-county area and Kansas City, Missouri. (Chart from KC Region COVID-19 dashboard)
The Unified Government COVID-19 webpage at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday reported 5,346 cumulative cases in Wyandotte County, an increase of 45 reported since Monday. There was one more death reported since Monday, a cumulative total of 108. (From UG COVID-19 website)
When college students return to campus this fall at the University of Kansas, there will be some changes.
One of the changes will be mass testing of all students. According to a news conference Tuesday morning at the University of Kansas Health System, students will return to campus in stages.
Chris Wilson, vice president of system integration and innovation at the health system, said students are moving back to campus housing by appointments, moving in their belongings, and then returning home.
Once home, they will take a free self-administered saliva test and send it in for testing, he said. If they don’t have COVID-19, they can then go back to campus and attend their classes.
According to Wilson, KU has about 200 rooms, in Naismith Hall, where students will go if they test positive and can’t go home.
KU is hoping to avoid the fate of the University of North Carolina, which opened school and had to call off in-person classes a week later, changing to online classes, because of COVID-19 cases.
Testing at KU is through Clinical Reference Laboratory. Robert Thompson, chief executive officer of the laboratory, said the saliva test recently received FDA approval.
Currently, he believes his company can handle 20,000 saliva tests a day, and they will be increasing capacity, with a goal of 50,000 by the end of September.
According to Thompson, saliva home tests may be available at home in the future, and possibly with a home kit that gives test results.
Dr. Dana Hawkinson, medical director of infection prevention and control at the KU Health System, reported there were 25 COVID-19 patients in the hospital Tuesday morning, compared to 28 on Monday. Ten patients were in the intensive care unit, on less than Monday, and six were on ventilators.
The Unified Government COVID-19 webpage at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday reported 5,346 cumulative cases in Wyandotte County, an increase of 45 reported since Monday. There was one more death reported since Monday, a cumulative total of 108.
Free testing offered
Free COVID-19 testing is planned from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, at Zotung Christian Church, 5010 Parallel Parkway, Kansas City, Kansas, through Vibrant Health and the Health Equity Task Force.
Free testing also is offered from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Unified Government Health Department parking lot at 6th and Ann, Kansas City, Kansas. For more information, call 311.
