Flags flew at half-mast in Pratt and across the state during the last week of December, as ordered by Gov. Laura Kelly, in honor of more than 7,000 Kansans who died in 2021 because of COVID infections. Photo by Jennifer Stultz
Kansas has passed 7,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the first death in March 2020. Kansas has surpassed another grisly milestone before the end of the…