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Concussions Treatments Need to Improve: Op-ed

Savannah Moore, Writer
November 6, 2022

  Across the sports world, discussions around concussions continue to surge after a significant incident in the NFL caused a player to suffer a traumatic brain injury; one that could have been prevented.      After Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered...

Opinion: It doesn’t matter if COVID is “over” or not

Opinion: It doesn’t matter if COVID is “over” or not

Hayden Baker
March 17, 2022

Step into a UMKC classroom and you’re likely to see mostly mask-less faces crammed into a too-small space. The same is common of gas stations, grocery stores and restaurants in the greater Kansas City area. This has little to do with the confusing guidelines the CDC released...

University of Kansas Health System joins local hospitals in vaccination requirements for workers, students, volunteers

University of Kansas Health System joins local hospitals in vaccination requirements for workers, students, volunteers

Joeli Toscano
September 13, 2021

The University of Kansas Health System announced on Sept. 1 that all workers, students and volunteers must receive vaccinations by the start of December. According to their recent press release, the decision was based on studying vaccination data, Centers for Disease Control...

Missouri Attorney General seeks to end school mask mandates

Missouri Attorney General seeks to end school mask mandates

Leah Taylor
September 6, 2021

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit against Columbia Public Schools on Aug. 24 seeking to end the school district’s mask mandate, calling the mandate “arbitrary and capricious.”  The lawsuit, which Schmitt filed in Boone County’s 13th Circuit...

Opinion: The case for social distancing

Opinion: The case for social distancing

Lukas Kenney
March 17, 2020

To unite as a country by distancing ourselves from each other seems paradoxical, but that’s exactly what we must do amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Obviously, COVID-19 (the disease caused by the current strain of coronavirus) is spread through human interaction. The simple...

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