April 2022

State shifts COVID-19 response to “a new normal”

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has executed a strategic and operational shift in its response to COVID-19, now calling it an “endemic” instead of a “pandemic.” “This is a good sign,” Ford County Health Department Administrator Angela Sowers told the Ford County Commission at its April 18 meeting. On March 31, the KDHE sent a document to local health departments and emergency managers titled “Shift to New Normal,” which states: “As COVID-19 shifts from a pandemic to an endemic disease, much like the common cold and annual flu, response efforts must shift accordingly.

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Thomas and Sharon Imel congratulate their son Michael Imel following his swearing in as a Dodge City police officer by police chief Drew Francis at the April 18 City Commission meeting. When commissioners asked Imel to say a little bit about himself he said he was “born and raised in Dodge City.

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