Kansas governor urges school districts to require masks

(AP) Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is calling for school districts to require masks as hospitals buckle under the strain of increasingly young COVID-19 patients. Kelly on Friday called the situation an “emergency” and urged people to get vaccinated. She said that more COVID-19 patients were admitted to hospitals in the state on Wednesday than any other single day since the pandemic began. And she said intensive care units are at 100% capacity at six of the state’s largest hospitals amid a surge fueled by the delta variant and low vaccination rates. Schools have been hit hard, with 154 clusters and 1,889 cases.