COVID-19

The Post-Pandemic Health Care (Staffing) Crisis

KC health care workers tell all about the toll recurring COVID-19 surges took on them. And what they need.

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Questions about COVID-19 abound. Here's what our team of reporters knows so far.

curiousKC | How Do We Navigate Politics and Health?

Here’s a round-up of stories that give a birds-eye look at what community leaders are doing to educate, empower and keep people healthy.

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Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery in Kansas City.

A Matter of Life, Death and Faith

A surging death toll during the pandemic is driving people to their knees, in both despondency and prayer.

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From left to right: Hickman Mills sophomore Saathvik Kannan, MU principal investigator Kamal, Singh, and MU undergraduate Austin Spratt. They're working together at Bond Life Sciences Center in Columbia to identify new SARS-CoV-2 variants. (Credit: Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center”)

MU Professor, High Schooler and Undergraduate Mathematician Lead the Research on Variants

At MU, a veteran scientist, high schooler and undergraduate student identified 46 mutations of the omicron variant.

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Hospital staff in Personal Protective Equipment such as robes, gloves and masks, treat a patient. This image accompanies our prompt that invites you, the public, to ask questions you want answered about health care.

curiousKC | What Stories Do You Want to See About Health Care?

Next up, Flatland’s team focuses on the questions you want to know about health care. See our previous coverage and write to us here.

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