Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Celia comes to the Kansas News Service after five years at the Topeka Capital-Journal. She brings in-depth experience covering schools and education policy in Kansas as well as news at the Statehouse. In the last year she has been diving into data reporting. At the Kansas News Service she will also be producing more radio, a medium she’s been yearning to return to since graduating from Columbia University with a master’s in journalism.
Celia also has a master’s degree in bilingualism studies from Stockholm University in Sweden. Before she landed in Kansas, Celia worked as a reporter for The American Lawyer in New York, translated Chinese law articles, and was a reporter and copy editor for the Taipei Times.
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When a Lenexa lab's own employee came down with COVID-19, he holed up at home and his coworkers spent long days running experiments on his saliva.
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Studies suggest that even if you go to a hospital in your insurance network to get care, there's a good chance you'll find out afterward that a third-party outside your network has the right to bill you, too.
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Fred Seaman founded Seaman High School 100 years ago. He launched the first-ever “Klan ticket” in Topeka elections, newspapers reported at the time.
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Some scientists recommend against buying an antibody test that could be poor quality. But you can get a free, good quality test by donating blood. And that helps public health experts track the pandemic.
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A project started by employers in Indiana who wanted to compare costs among hospitals has grown to include 49 states. Hospitals dispute their findings.
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Nursing homes that don't have the machines and kits need to send their samples to private labs, but some say the prices are impossible to afford long-term.
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A panel of lawmakers and the governor will consider $50 million in proposals to expand COVID-19 testing, including $20 million that could go toward helping schools.
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Weeks into the outbreak at Riverbend in Kansas City, Kansas, inspectors still saw health workers caring for COVID-19 patients without proper protective gear.
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State officials hope two labs in Johnson County could help Kansas boost its testing capacity dramatically for schools, nursing homes and asymptomatic people.
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When it takes several days for nurse's aides to get a COVID-19 test and find out if they're sick, coworkers have to work long hours, picking up extra shifts.