{"id":17439,"date":"2022-01-05T18:17:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/general\/kansas-city-tops-250k-total-cases-childrens-mercy-treating-more-kids\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T18:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T18:17:29","slug":"kansas-city-tops-250k-total-cases-childrens-mercy-treating-more-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/tr\/general\/kansas-city-tops-250k-total-cases-childrens-mercy-treating-more-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY TOPS 250K TOTAL CASES, CHILDREN&#8217;S MERCY TREATING MORE KIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KANSAS CITY METRO SURPASSES 250K CASES SINCE PANDEMIC\u2019S START<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the average of new COVID-19 cases reached a record high on Tuesday, the region has now seen more than a quarter of a million total cases since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the seven-day average hit 2,100 per day, according to data maintained by The Star. Officials in the area \u2014 which includes Kansas City and Jackson, Platte, Clay, Wyandotte and Johnson counties \u2014 have reported 14,839 new cases within the past week, bringing the full tally to 252,126 since the start of the public health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Forty more people have also died within the past week, The Star reported. The death toll for the area currently stands at 3,429.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHILDREN\u2019S MERCY SEES NEW HIGH OF COVID-19 PATIENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s Mercy reported that 27 kids were hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Tuesday, the highest child patient load the hospital has seen since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Cases across the area and the nation have been largely driven by the omicron variant. Dr. Angela Myers, the Infectious Diseases Division director at Children\u2019s Mercy, said that because of how highly contagious omicron is, more people overall will become hospitalized \u201ceven if it causes less severe disease overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medical experts recommend eligible children get the vaccine to prevent getting COVID-19. Children under 12 are still ineligible for a booster shot, while those younger than 5 currently can\u2019t get vaccinated against COVID-19 at all. For this reason, Myers recommends a variety of safety measures to keep kids from being infected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEncouraging your kid to wear a mask, even if it\u2019s not required in school, I think is really critical,\u201d she said. \u201c[So is] washing your hands frequently, sneezing and coughing in your elbow, staying home when you\u2019re sick, [and] getting tested if you have symptoms, even if your symptoms are mild.\u201d (The Kansas City Star)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the average of new COVID-19 cases reached a record high on Tuesday, the region has now seen more than a quarter of a million total cases since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,5,78,80],"tags":[236,240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maremont.me\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}