Reactions to the COVID pandemic must be balanced, and that requires full transparency from media and government officials.  We’re bombarded with ‘breaking news’ every time there’s something bad to report, but much of the information people need to put things in perspective and reach their own informed opinion is sorely lacking.

This page is a regularly updated repository of official government statistics gathered by the Kansas Policy Institute team.  Americans can think for themselves and will act responsibly, but we don’t – and shouldn’t – take kindly to partially-informed mandates.

COVID INFORMATION INDEX:

1. Comparative trends – cases, hospitalizations, and deaths

2. Cases, hospitalization, and mortality by age group

3. Cases, deaths, mortality rate and infection rate by county

4. Cases and deaths in Kansas nursing homes and other clusters

5. Hospitalization and death rate trends in Kansas

6. Hospital beds available in Kansas and regional states

7. Cases and deaths by state

8. Pneumonia, COVID, and flu deaths

9. COVID economic impact

Note: Most jurisdictions don’t publish the important historic data needed to prepare these charts.

Note: Most counties don’t publish this data by age group

Note: KDHE won’t publish deaths by county; that data is gathered by the New York Times and Wikipedia from county sites and published here

Note: The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) doesn’t provide a county breakout.

Note: We began tracking this data on July 6, when KDHE rejected our Open Records request for historic data on hospitalizations

Note: The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services gathers this data from hospitals

Note: The COVID data published by Worldometer is compared to US Census population estimates

Note: From the Centers for Disease Control

Note: The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks monthly job changes