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curiousKC | How Do You Discuss the Scary Virus With Children?

By | December 14, 2020 | 0
To curb fear in the unknown, Enam Haddad tells her children that the virus is like little red dots that need to be avoided. (Collage by Vicky Diaz-Camacho | Image: Library of Congress)

The curiousKC team talks to parents and experts about how to discuss COVID-19 with children.

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Missouri’s Struggling Live Venues Beseech Gov. Mike Parson: ‘We’re looking for a lifeline here’

By | December 4, 2020 | 0
A crowd at recordBar

This week, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson received a letter from the Missouri Entertainment Alliance asking for funds to save the state’s live-entertainment industry.

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CDC Confirms Kansas Mask Mandates Helped Reduce COVID-19 Infections

By | November 20, 2020 | 0
Farah Ahmed, state epidemiologist with the Kansas Department for Health and Environment

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have published new research that reaffirms mask mandates helped slow the spread of COVID-19 in Kansas’ largest counties.

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Turning Data to Dialogue: Police Stop Data and the Search for Solutions

By | November 18, 2020 | 0
Ryan Sorrell

Missouri has some of the nation’s most comprehensive and longstanding data on police traffic stops. Yet for all of the tallying and annual reports and statements of concern, little has changed.

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‘Just Not Enough People’: Health Care Workers Face Fatigue as COVID-19 Surges

By | November 13, 2020 | 0
COVID-19 vaccine in a syringe

As cases and hospitalizations hit all-time highs, both in Missouri and across the country, hospitals, officials and healthcare workers themselves are warning that staffing is stretched thin.

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