COVID-19: Testing; Case Counts; Positivity Rates; Reopening Plan and More!

MARC's Kansas City Region COVID-19 Data Hub

Compare Platte County to other jurisdictions in rolling-average case count, positivity rate, data for schools, and more.

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‘Masks Required’ Signs for Businesses

Testing

For testing in Platte County, read the following before you complete the Self-Reporting Tool.

Testing has been expanded to include Platte County residents with or without symptoms of COVID-19.

Those who wish to be tested must complete the Self-Reporting Tool.  Please allow up to 48 hours for us to contact you to set up an appointment. Thank you for your patience.  If you have an urgent question about testing, please call (816) 587-5998, extension 'hashtag 220'.

Are you a contact of someone diagnosed with COVID-19? If yes, wait 5 days after exposure to get tested.

Other Testing Sites in Missouri

Laboratory Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Platte County, Missouri
As of 9/28/20 - We're experiencing technical difficulties with our COVID-19 dashboard. When it's back up and running we will post the most recent data. Thank you for understanding.

*Due to data transformation error, data shall not be applied. Updates will be made as soon as possible.  

Numbers will be updated daily by 7:00 PM  

Platte County Health Department COVID-19 Dashboard (Hover the mouse cursor over the bars on the graphs below to view numbers of cases.) 

Cases by Platte County Zip Code (As of 9/9/20. Updated every Wednesday by 7:00 PM)

**Suppressed if fewer than 5 cases in a zip code

The following table includes only cases involving Platte County residents not within the city limits of Kansas City:

Information from Our Partners

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

Hospital Situational Awareness Report - KC Region

MISSOURI's COVID-19 Dashboard

SEMA DAILY BRIEF - Hospital utilization data is usually found between pages 6-10.

IMHE COVID-19 Projections - Missouri

IMHE COVID-19 Projections - Kansas

Return to School Recommendations
New on August 20, 2020 (Version 04)

The Order

Phase 2, Step 4: AMENDED ORDER, including face covering requirements (effective at 12:01 AM on July 16, 2020)

The Plan

New on May 29, 2020 (Version 0.7) - Reopening Plan for Platte County - Look here to find out what's expected of you and your business.
Compare our Plan to the PRESIDENT's PLAN
Compare our Plan to MISSOURI's PLAN

Guidance for Businesses, Organizations, etc.

All businesses are asked to create a reopening plan. Food establishments must create a reopening plan and submit it to [email protected].

Instructions for employees and customers on how to protect themselves from the virus should be posted near customer entry doors. The instructions should include a list of protective measures the business is taking as well.

When reasonably achievable, businesses and event organizers are encouraged to collect names and contact information of all people entering their facilities in the event contact tracing becomes necessary.

The following are excellent examples of safe reopening guidance from industry:

Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP)

National Restaurant Association

FDA's Food Establishment Checklist

FDA's Food Establishment Best Practices Poster

#SafeReturnKC: A Guide for Responsible Re-entry to the Workplace

Check out these examples of Employers' Back-to-Workplace Guides.

Helpful Resources

Posters and Other Tools for Businesses

6 Feet Apart Sign

Advisory Group - Click here

Board of Trustees - Click here

COVID-19 Resources:

RETURN TO SCHOOL GUIDANCE FROM VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS

INFORMATION REGARDING FACE COVERINGS AS MITIGATION STRATEGY

Publications

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/people-this-age-are-more-infectious-covid-19-study-finds/ar-BB16XV2U?li=BBnb7Kz
• https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-face-masks-what-you-need-to-know
• https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/10/2009637117
• https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext#%20
• https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2020.0376
• https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00818
• https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/21/880832213/yes-wearing-masks-helps-heres-why
• https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/what-different-face-coverings-most-18592404

  Demonstration

• https://www.fastcompany.com/90522541/this-striking-science-experiment-shows-the-effectiveness-of-masks-and-social-distancing

  Articles Regarding Efficacy of Masks

• Young Joon Park, Young June Choe, Ok Park, et al Contact Tracing during Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, South Korea, 2020 https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-1315_article

• Anfinrud P, Stadnytskyi V, Bax CE, Bax A. Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets with Laser Light Scattering. N Engl J Med. 2020 Apr 15. doi:10.1056/NEJMc2007800. PMID: 32294341external icon
• Davies A, Thompson KA, Giri K, Kafatos G, Walker J, Bennett A. Testing the efficacy of homemade masks: would they protect in an influenza pandemic? Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2013;7(4):413-8. PMID: 24229526external icon
• Konda A, Prakash A, Moss GA, Schmoldt M, Grant GD, Guha S. Aerosol Filtration Efficiency of Common Fabrics Used in Respiratory Cloth Masks. ACS Nano. 2020 Apr 24. PMID: 32329337external icon
• Aydin O, Emon B, Saif MTA. Performance of fabrics for home-made masks against spread of respiratory infection through droplets: a quantitative mechanistic study. medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.19.20071779, posted April 24, 2020.
• Ma QX, Shan H, Zhang HL, Li GM, Yang RM, Chen JM. Potential utilities of mask-wearing and instant hand hygiene for fighting SARS-CoV-2. J Med Virol. 2020. PMID: 32232986external icon
• Leung, N.H.L., Chu, D.K.W., Shiu, E.Y.C. et al.Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks. Nat Med. 2020. PMID: 32371934external icon
• Johnson DF, Druce JD, Birch C, Grayson ML. A quantitative assessment of the efficacy of surgical and N95 masks to filter influenza virus in patients with acute influenza infection. Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Jul 15;49(2):275-7. PMID: 19522650external icon
• Green CF, Davidson CS, Panlilio AL, et al. Effectiveness of selected surgical masks in arresting vegetative cells and endospores when worn by simulated contagious patients. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2012;33(5):487-494. PMID: 22476275external icon

INFORMATION REGARDING HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AND COVID-19

The decision to prescribe off label medications is between a healthcare provider and his/her patient.  There are ongoing studies of hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19.

Recently released RECOVERY trial preliminary report:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.15.20151852v1

Read more about RECOVERY trial here:

https://www.recoverytrial.net/

Article from STAT news:

Hydroxychloroquine does not prevent Covid-19 infection if exposed, study says

The Study the article refers to:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638?query=featured_home#.XtgSPYeCao0.twitter

FDA’s STANCE:

FDA cautions against use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for COVID-19 outside of the hospital setting or a clinical trial due to risk of heart rhythm problems (Does not affect FDA-approved uses for malaria, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis)

A major error is found in Dr. Risch’s article: Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High_Risk Covid-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis, by Harvey Risch, which highlights how the work by Prof. Raoult should be read and considered.

Click here to read the abstract

Commentary regarding Dr. Risch’s article:

Click here to read the response

COVID-19 AND ADVERSE OUTCOMES SHORT OF DEATH

University of Minnesota:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/study-finds-lung-impairment-recovering-covid-19-patients

Global Times News Article about First Phase of a Study by Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196716.shtml

WebMD Article that references Wuhan study below:

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200513/complications-on-the-road-to-recovery-after-covid

Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study:

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(20)30566-3.pdf

Weill Cornell Medicine:

https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2020/07/what-is-known-about-covid-19-and-abnormal-blood-clotting

Johns Hopkins Ongoing Studies:

https://ictr.johnshopkins.edu/coronavirus/activeprotocols/observational-and-outcomes/

Healthline News Article that references study below:

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/lifelong-lung-damage-the-serious-covid-19-complication-that-can-hit-people-in-their-20s

Pulmonary fibrosis secondary to COVID-19: a call to arms?:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30222-8/fulltext

Articles in Science Magazine:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/brain-fog-heart-damage-covid-19-s-lingering-problems-alarm-scientists

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/survivors-severe-covid-19-beating-virus-just-beginning

Hackensack Meridian Health:

https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/HealthU/2020/07/29/what-are-the-long-term-effects-of-covid-19/

University of California, Berkley Article-From lung scarring to heart damage, COVID-19 may leave lingering marks:

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/07/08/from-lung-scarring-to-heart-damage-covid-19-may-leave-lingering-marks/

National Kidney Foundation:

https://www.kidney.org/coronavirus/kidney-disease-covid-19#long-term-implications-aki

New data shows COVID-19 can cause kidney failure — and launch a different kind of epidemic:

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2020/new-data-shows-covid-19-can-cause-kidney-failure-and-launch-a-different-kind-of-epidemic/

American Society of Nephrology References:

https://www.asn-online.org/covid-19/ASN#Kidney_Week

Coronaviruses pathogenesis, comorbidities and multi-organ damage – A review:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7243768/

Links to additional Resources:

Prepare Metro KC includes a collection of COVID-19 information from local health departments throughout the Kansas City Area.

Cleaning & Disinfection instructions for COVID-19 including a list of cleaning products approved for effectiveness.

Protect Yourself by following CDC recommendations.

Travel recommendations for your specific destination.

How to Safely Care for Someone Sick with COVID-19