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Reopening Johnson County | Lifting Restrictions Reactions | RVs For MDs

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Laura Ziegler
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KCUR
Business owners like Laura Leiben, of The Culinary Center in Overland Park, Kansas, are struggling with how and when to reopen. A task force in Johnson County has been assembled to provide guidance.

Segment 1, beginning at 4:25: A new task force is meeting to draw down stay-at-home rules.

Johnson County is looking to reopen after weeks under stay-at-home orders, and county leaders have assembled a committee to figure out the safest way of doing so. Members of the group described how they're approaching the decision.

Segment 2, beginning at 28:50: Are Kansas City metro residents ready for an opening up?

Political leaders are talking more frequently about the need to lift stay-at-home rules. Residents in the Kansas City area told us if they're ready for their towns to reopen, and we heard what role politics play in the debate.

Segment 3, beginning at 52:30: Lifting some of the quarantine burden from shoulders of health care providers

Meet a Kansas City medical professional who was the beneficiary of a Facebook group connecting doctors and nurses with RVs in which to quarantine so they can keep their families safe while they fight COVID-19.

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