Health

An infectious disease specialist addresses schools reopening, the latest in testing and vaccine progress, and the need for masks and social distancing.

The lasting effects of COVID-19 and how the coronavirus is affecting schools reopening, celebrating the first organized professional Black baseball league, and how prescient past movies have been when compared to current protests and the pandemic.

Coronavirus cases were on the rise in Kansas and Missouri even before the holiday weekend.

Families considering whether or not to send college-age kids back to campus for the fall semester are facing some unprecedented choices.

A coronavirus check-in with Kansas City's top public health official, developments in the MLB and NASCAR seasons, a settlement at KU Athletics, and how Patrick Mahomes has changed the NFL stance on player protests, and what's behind a weather occurrence known to happen in northeastern Kansas.

When KU researchers asked counties how they were doing, most had very little gear on hand to collect samples from sick patients.

A check-in on the the well-being of nurses working through the pandemic, incarcerated folks say health and safety recommendations are being ignored in Kansas prisons, and how a smartphone app could ease the labor of tracking positive COVID-19 cases.

APM Research Lab looked at racial disparities among COVID-19 deaths and found the disparities in Kansas and Missouri to be some of the worst in the country.

Given the popularity of COVID-19 antibody tests, we hear lessons on what antibodies are, the reliability of home testing and whether having antibodies in your system will protect you from infection.

The status of COVID-19 testing in Clay County, Missouri, a primer on antibodies and if they protect against coronavirus, how the pandemic could renew a classic movie-viewing experience, and the last two in our series of high school valedictorian speeches.

Council members cited concerns over the effectiveness and enforcement of an ordinance requiring face masks in public.

As cities across the region relax some pandemic restrictions, the dangers posed by COVID-19 persist. We heard advice for venturing out safely, if you have to.