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Kansas: Covid-19 cases - 46,002 cases; 481 deaths

Hospital situation:Topeka, KS

From Topeka Capital Journal Today - https://bit.ly/3gZadsz
Hospital sees rise in positive Covid-19 cases
An increasing number of COVID-19 tests administered by Stormont Vail Health are turning up positive.

“Three weeks ago on June 17, we were at about a 6% positive rate of tests and today we are at 11.1% positive,” the hospital said in a statement posted Friday on its website.

“This is very, very concerning,” that statement said.

It said a good metric to monitor involves the percentage of positive readings from COVID-19 tests administered by Stormont Vail, excluding its testing for pre-procedure clearance of patients who have no symptoms.

Stormont Vail’s most recent testing statistics can be found on its website.

That site indicates the 11.1% figure comes from the 15,259 COVID-19 tests Stormont Vail has administered to date.

Stormont Vail also noted in Friday’s statement that on Thursday it hit its highest number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at any one time, with 15.

That total fell to 12 on Friday. Some of the Stormont Vail COVID-19 patients are from Shawnee County while others are not.

A total of 10 COVID-19 patients from Shawnee County were hospitalized Saturday, according to the Shawnee County Health Department.

Its figures can be accessed by clicking on the link to a “Shawnee County COVID-19 Cases Dashboard.”

That site showed that this past week brought Shawnee County its second-most new confirmed COVID-19 cases for a single week to date, though there were no new COVID-19 deaths.

The county’s number of confirmed new COVID-19 cases rose by 195 during that week, from 795 on July 4 to 990 on Saturday. The county’s one-week high for confirmed new cases is 199, recorded between June 27 and July 4.

According to the health department website:

‒ Of Shawnee County’s 990 known COVID-19 cases, 338 are active, 639 patients have recovered and the death toll remains at 13.

‒ The 338 active cases are the most the county has had so far at any one time. The previous high was 323, on Friday.

‒ 348 people were being monitored for the potential presence of COVID-19, down from 420 being monitored a week earlier.
 
Hospital situation - as posted by Dr. Chloe Steinshouer - provider of pulmonary medicine care at Ascension Health - on Facebook - https://bit.ly/32iteSv

Chloe Steinshouer is with Rachael Rivero.
18 hrs
Team Rivershouer/Steinvero finishing up another COVID ICU week.

Let’s recap what we know:
1) Kansas is rapidly increasing cases and Wichita is helping lead the pack. We have doubled our cases in the last 2 weeks (It took us 2 months to go from 1 to 500, 6 weeks to go from 500 to 1000, and 15 days to go from 1000 to 2000)
2) Our case surge and increased percent positive testing happened 2-3 weeks after we opened with no restrictions (see ALL of the graphs). We had a flat curve and now we have an exponential growth curve.
3) As predicted, our hospital case increase was delayed about 2 weeks behind our initial surge in cases. But, we have caught up with a vengeance. As of this week, we have more than tripled the number of cases in the hospitals in Wichita. More than half of these patients are critically ill and require ICU care. We have also had several deaths of these patients. Our cases are no longer coming from clusters, but from broad community spread. This has resulted in the hospitals closing to visitors again.
4) These patients are generally sicker and require more care. Many are young and previously healthy. We are using more invasive oxygen and ventilation, dialysis, pressors, and even ECMO to take care of these patients. That means they are in the hospital longer and require more support and care.
5) We have supportive measures and medicines that *may* help reduce mortality, but we (the medical community world wide) are still primarily providing supportive care to help stabilize these people.
6) Your friendly ICU doctors, nurses, aides, RTs, APPs, hospitalists, pharmacists, therapists, and other specialists are busting our butts on these patients. They are amongst the sickest we have ever cared for in our careers and they are all coming at once. We are spending hours on end in masks, gowns, shields, goggles, etc to try and stay safe and limit disease spread while taking care of these patients. We wear them when turning these people prone, bathing them, giving them medicine, feeding them, and just being at their bedside so they aren’t alone. My face shows exactly what this means when we go home at night.
7)Our death rate is going to climb, and it will be delayed. Some of these patients are sick for weeks to months. We won’t know the outcome of the cases we saw this week for weeks.
 
Phillips County - Hotpsot

Prayers for Logan, Kansas as posted on Facebook - https://bit.ly/2ZqS8xG

Friends: I'm asking for prayers for my hometown of Logan, Kansas. It's a small town (population around 500) located 75 miles NW of Hays. It is being hit hard by Coronavirus. The local nursing home has 35 residents and more than half of them have tested positive for COVID-19, along with many staff members. There have been four deaths in the nursing home in the past week. Other people in the community have tested positive, also. More than half of the population of Logan is over 50 years old - with more than half of that over 65 years old.

Please extend your prayers to the 500+ residents and all of the extended families of Logan. Our little town is hurting right now.
 
Nat'l publication: Phillips Co. top COVID-19 hotspot in Kansas

Republished by the Hays Post - https://bit.ly/3ey3JiN
Posted Jul 13, 2020 10:02 AM

More than 30 cases, including four deaths, hit Logan nursing home
Phillips County, Review (Phillipsburg, KS)


By KIRBY ROSS
Phillips County Review

Recently Main Street Media ran a very well-received seven-part 1918-1920 Spanish Flu Pandemic series in six north-central Kansas newspapers. For those who read it, they know that in January 1920 Phillips County made statewide headlines for being Kansas’ top hotspot for that deadly disease.
2020 PANDEMIC OUTBREAK


Now, exactly one century later, and with a mass town hall political rally slated to take place in Phillipsburg just 48 hours from now on Wed., July 15, Phillips County is once again making headlines, this time national, for being Kansas' top hotspot in a deadly pandemic outbreak; this time for Coronavirus COVID-19.

That dubious distinction is now occurring as the virus found a way into the Logan Manor Nursing Home in Logan two weeks ago, where it has been cutting a devastating path through that facility ever since.

With the COVID pandemic hitting Kansas in March, its march through Phillips County had originally been a slow one.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported the first case as hitting the county in Phillipsburg the week of April 5.

Phillips County case number two showed up around a month later during the week of May 10. That infection was also in Phillipsburg.

And during the week of June 7 a third case hit in rural Phillipsburg.

All three cases were isolated, and are unrelated to one another.

Then came Logan in early July.

With each new diagnosed COVID-19 infection taking place at close to 30-day intervals, what is happening as a result of the latest outbreak is sending the people of Phillips County reeling.

In the first week of July the KDHE, in conjunction with the Phillips County Health Office, announced that COVID-19 had made its way past the extraordinary screening and protective measures put in place at the 36-bed Logan Manor Nursing Home in Logan in southwest Phillips County.

On Wednesday, July 1, four total cases had been identified there.

On Thursday, July 2, that count was up to seven.

After that, the numbers exploded. On Friday, July 3, there were now 25 cases -- 17 residents and eight staff members. Most infected residents were quarantined in place, with some of the most ill being transported to Kearney and Hays hospitals.

First came the diagnoses -- then the deaths. Those started on Tuesday, July 7, as two male residents, ages 87 and 47, were claimed by the effects of the disease. The elderly man passed away in the Logan facility, while the younger man died at Hays Medical Center.

Late Thursday, July 9, and early Friday, July 10, two more Logan Manor resident fatalities occurred.  And following another round of testing last week there were also eight new COVID diagnoses -- five residents and three staff -- bringing the total Logan Manor statistics as of July 10 up to four dead, and 33 infected (not including the original three earlier unrelated cases elsewhere in the county).

Those two more recent July 9-10 deaths involved a 92-year-old woman and 60-year-old man.  Both passed away at Logan Manor.
24/7 WALL STREET IDENTIFIES PHILLIPS COUNTY AS TOP KANSAS HOTSPOT


That same day, Friday, July 10, 24/7 Wall Street, a New York-based finance and business publication, ran a report identifying the top counties “in every state where COVID-19 is growing the fastest.”

Note should be made that 24/7 Wall Street's study includes statistics through Tuesday, July 7, and does not include the newest Phillips County cases and deaths still hitting after that.

Prefacing its article with the following, the publication noted:

“More than 3 million COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the United States, and more than 130,000 people have died as a result of the coronavirus, by far the most cases and deaths of any country.

“Within the United States the extent of the spread varies considerably from state to state, and even from county to county.

“As the number of daily new cases is declining in some parts of the U.S., they are spiking alarmingly in others. In the vast majority of states the number of daily new cases is rising, and a number of states have paused their planned reopenings as a result.

“Using data from state and local health departments, we compiled and reviewed the average of new daily confirmed COVID-19 cases for the week ending July 7 and compared it to the average of new daily cases from the previous week to determine the county in each state where the virus is growing the fastest.”

As part of its analysis 24/7 reported the average number of new daily cases per capita nationwide has increased from 11.1 per 100,000 people during the week ending June 30, to 14.8 per 100,000 in the week ending July 7.

In its look at the counties in the fastest growing outbreak states, 24/7 identified Phillips County as having the fastest growing outbreak in Kansas.

In naming it the top hotspot, 24/7 Wall Street provided the following data:

Kansas: Phillips County
•Change in daily average new COVID cases week over week: 15.1 per 100,000 people
•Average new daily cases in Phillips County in 7 days ending July 7: 17 per 100,000
•Average new daily cases in Phillips County in 7 days ending June 30: 2 per 100,000
•Average new daily cases in Kansas in 7 days ending July 7: 11 per 100,000
•Cumulative confirmed COVID cases in Phillips County as of July 7: 499 per 100,000 people (total: 27)
• Population: 5,408
• Largest place in Phillips County: Phillipsburg
PHILLIPS COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER STATEMENT


Pete Rogers, July 10: “We are incredibly saddened for the families, residents and staff at Logan Manor. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Just a reminder: use social distancing, wear masks in public where social distancing isn’t likely, use good hand hygiene, and stay home if you are feeling ill or have a fever of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or greater.”

Republished with permission
 
Phillips County Health Department
statement - https://bit.ly/3gWgAge

NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Pete Rogers – Phillips County Public Health Officer

Teresa McComb- Logan Manor Administrator

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 10, 2020



2 additional fatalities and 9 additional positive results of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) identified in Phillips County

Logan, KS/Phillips County – On July 10[SUP]th[/SUP], 2020, the Phillips County Health Department confirmed 2 additional deaths of COVID-19 positive individuals in Phillips County. Both individuals are related to the outbreak at Logan Manor.

A 92 year old female passed away late in the night on July 9[SUP]th[/SUP], 2020 at the Logan Manor.

A 60 year old male passed away in the late morning hours today July 10[SUP]th[/SUP], 2020 at the Logan Manor.

No additional information will be released on these individuals.

There were 3 additional staff and 5 residents that tested positive from the July 8[SUP]th[/SUP] testing and are associated with this cluster.

In addition, a 69 year old male has tested positive in the county but is not related to the Logan Manor cluster.

These are current numbers for Phillips County:

27 active cases

5 resolved cases

4 deaths



“We are incredibly saddened for the families, residents and staff at Logan Manor. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.”

Just a reminder: use social distancing, wear masks in public where social distancing isn’t likely, use good hand hygiene, and stay home if you are feeling ill or have a fever of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or greater.

Phillips County residents can stay informed by visiting:

www.phillipscountyks.org , www.kdheks.gov/coronavirus or http://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus

For general information, you may contact the EOC at 785-540-4262.

Pete Rogers

Phillips County Health Officer

785-540-4262

phillipscountyeoc@gmail.com



Teresa McComb

Logan Manor Administrator

785-689-4201

teresamccomb@loganmanorcare.com
 
Posted by Rob Mattox to the 'Reno County (KS) Emergency Update" page on Facebook - https://bit.ly/32l01Xj
Rob Mattox is an administrator of this group

Yet to be reported by KDHE is over 1000 new cases of COVID-19 in KS over the weekend. Roughly ~500 of those appear to be from today alone. We'll update that number below as it appears on the KDHE site in the next couple of days.Top Daily New Cases in KS thus far:
  • #1 - 7/10/2020 - 658 Cases**
  • #2 - 7/3/2020 - 546 Cases
  • #3 - 7/8/2020 - 536 Cases**
  • #4 - 7/2/2020 - 511 Cases**
  • #5 - 6/26/2020 - 494 Cases
  • #6 - 4/29/2020 - 489 Cases
(**updated numbers from KDHE)
As usual, we expect that every couple of days KDHE will continue to "revise" the past numbers until they trickle up to the actual case count for each day. We're now on a sharp upward trajectory. For this reason, it's a reasonable certainty that 7/10 will not remain in the #1 spot for long. As noted, we'll keep an eye on this and update it as necessary.
KDHE Interactive Map and Case Summary: https://www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov/160/COVID-19-in-Kansas

Reliable 3rd Party Aggregation Sites:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
https://ncov2019.live/data
https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en?fbclid=IwAR1Fj6AR9E1gFr5lr-Wp8flsJTB8N_DyJ0ECALGyBD7K00KU3HqfdpJo-5g
 
K-State signs agreement to help develop vaccine candidate for COVID-19

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas State University has signed a new research agreement to help develop a vaccine candidate for COVID-19.

The agreement is with Tonix Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, to develop a vaccine candidate for the prevention of COVID-19.

K-State will advance preclinical development of a live replicating virus vaccine to protect against COVID-19 based on bovine parainfluenzavirus (BPI3V).

The inventor of the technology and professor of diagnostic pathobiology in the K-State College of Veterinary Medicine, Waithaka Mwangi said in K-State news release, “a weakened BPI3V has previously been shown to be an effective vaccine vehicle in humans,”

“More importantly, following extensive testing, BPI3V was shown to be safe and stable in infants and children,” Mwangi explained. “The vector is well suited for mucosal immunization using a nasal atomizer, but it can also be injected. Therefore, BPI3V is suitable for development of COVID-19 vaccine candidates.”

While majority of vaccines that are currently being develop will be injected into the body, it will be sprayed in the nose to trigger the virus.

The research agreement, coordinated through K-State Innovation Partners, is the fourth license agreement between K-State and corporate partners on technologies related to COVID-19.

WIBW TV (Topeka, KS) - https://bit.ly/32epXDN
 
Wichita mayor says hospitalizations for COVID-19 patients highest ever

Posted: Jul 13, 2020 / 03:08 PM CDT / Updated: Jul 13, 2020 / 03:15 PM CDTThis undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple says leadership at Wichita hospitals are reporting admitted patients for COVID-19 are the highest ever. The mayor says if the numbers continue, hospitals in the area will reach capacity within weeks.

Right now, the Sedgwick County Health Department shows hospitalizations for COVID-19 are at a moderate level in the county.



On Sunday, KSN News talked to one doctor at Wesley who says they’re are seeing an increase in hospitalizations.

“Our team is working very hard, these are incredibly sick patients, they’re amongst the sickest that we have in the hospital, and honestly, as a group, they’re among the sickest that we’ve seen in our careers. They require a large amount of labor from our nursing staff, from our environmental staff turning over these rooms, and keeping things clean,” said Dr. Chloe Steinshouer

Wesley Medical Center along with Ascension Via Christi have resumed no visitor policies.

As of Monday afternoon, the Sedgwick County Health Department is reporting 1,245 active cases of coronavirus in the county. There have been 28 deaths from COVID-19 in the county.

KSN Television (Wichita, KS) - https://bit.ly/38VFVUs
 
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