Kansas City metro adds more than 350 new COVID-19 cases and two more deaths
The Kansas City metropolitan area added more than 350 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths on Friday.
The area encompassing Kansas City and Jackson, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas gained 351 new cases for a total of 27,103 to date.
The two week positive test rate in Kansas City was 10.25% and 14.85% in Jackson County.
The overall positive test rate was 7.83% in Clay County, 8.62% in Platte County, 7.6% in Johnson County and 18.4% in Wyandotte County.
“When we’re talking about positivity for those tested, we’re looking at the disease transmission,” said David Wild, vice president of performance improvement at the University of Kansas Health System. “That helps us understand if we are testing enough right now, to understand the full picture of spread of the disease in the community.”
The health system is treating 27 patients for the coronavirus, up three from Thursday. Five of those patients are on ventilators.
The metro added 319 cases on Monday, 293 on Tuesday, 300 on Wednesday and 367 on Thursday.
The seven day average for new cases was 331. One week ago, it was 388. Two weeks ago, it was 361.
The two recent deaths were in Wyandotte County, which has the most of any area within the metro at 111. Johnson County has 110, Kansas City has 66, Jackson County has 55, Clay County has 30 and Platte County has 10, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. A total of 382 residents in the metro have died from COVID-19.
On Friday, Missouri reported 72,964 cases to date, including 1,419 deaths. The seven day positive test rate was 11% while the overall rate was 8.1%.
Kansas has confirmed 36,856 cases, including 419 deaths. The overall positive test rate was 10.1%.
Across the country, more than 5.6 million people have contracted the virus and 174,761 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.
