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Jan. 21, 2022
KSHB: Going behind closed doors of Saint Luke's COVID-19 ICU
KSHB was given access to take a look inside one of Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City's ICUs that are caring for COVID-19 patients, as well as a look in the Emergency Department. 
Jan. 21, 2022
KCTV: Kansas City area ICUs nearly full as hospitals struggle to help unvaccinated patients
Missouri is sitting at a 53-percent vaccination rate, one of the lowest in the country, as Kansas City area hospitals are struggling to keep up care for COVID patients.
Jan. 21, 2022
Kansas City Star: ‘COVID parties’ spread the virus on purpose. That’s ‘Russian roulette,’ doctors warn
Kansas City Star highlights the different ways the community can help heath care workers during the pandemic.
Jan. 20, 2022
FOX4: Kansas City shines to support frontline workers

Wednesday, the Plaza lights briefly turned back on and the Chiefs, Royals, Sporting KC, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kauffman Center, Marriott, and others

Jan. 20, 2022
Kansas City Star: Nurse talks about treating patients with ECMO in Saint Luke's COVID ICU
Allyse Dowell, a registered nurse at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, briefly explains Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
Jan. 20, 2022
Kansas City Star: ‘Utterly tragic’: The toll of COVID, through the eyes of a Saint Luke's ICU doctor
COVID-19 cases are the highest Saint Luke's Health System has seen during the pandemic. The Kansas City Star takes a look inside one of the ICU units where COVID patients are being treated.
Jan. 19, 2022
CBS News Takes Viewers Inside a Saint Luke's ICU as Omicron Takes a Devastating Toll on Kansas City
CBS News went inside Saint Luke's ICU units where COVID patients are being treated and spoke to experts about what clinical care teams are seeing in the Kansas City area.
Jan. 18, 2022
KMBC: Local hospitals in high demand of monoclonal antibodies to fight against omicron variant
KMBC talked to Dr. Sarah Boyd about what Saint Luke's Health System is doing.