Kansas City metro adds nearly 350 new COVID-19 cases and one more death Monday
The Kansas City metropolitan area added more than 340 new COVID-19 cases Monday and one more death was confirmed.
The area encompassing Kansas City and Jackson, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas added 343 new cases for a total of 23,004 to date.
The seven-day rolling average for new daily cases is 360. One week ago, it was 472. Two weeks ago, it was 438.
The recent death was reported in Kansas City, raising the metro’s total to 347.
Doctors at the University of Kansas Health System said they were treating 31 patients for the virus, up eight from Sunday.
“That’s unfortunate. We just had a lot of admissions,” said Dana Hawkinson, director of infection prevention and control at the health system. “Certainly we have seen in COVID, that nothing is predictable.”
Ten of the patients are in the intensive care unit with eight on ventilators.
“This is a bad trend,” Hawkinson said. “We will wait to see what happens over the next few days.”
On Monday, Missouri reported 59,954 cases, including 1,307 deaths. The seven-day positive test rate was 10.8%. The overall positive test rate was 7.5%.
Kansas confirmed 31,730 cases, including 287 deaths. The overall positive test rate was 9.7%.
Nationwide, more than 5 million people have contracted the virus and 163,252 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.
This story was originally published August 10, 2020 at 4:10 PM.
