Hope Turns to Disappointment: Starkey Reopens...Then Closes Again

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As spring gave way to summer in 2020, Starkey gradually opened its day programs for its persons-served in phases, so as to ensure their safety as much as possible. These emails dated June 2 to July 14, 2020, offer a look into a seemingly steady and successful reopening process, while illustrating the patchwork nature of Kansas's reopening, and how individual entities charted their own course while following the state's suggested guidelines. Perhaps most tellingly, the final email conveys the sudden pullback brought about by the virus's continued surge, when the day programs closed yet again due to rapidly rising COVID-19 cases in Sedgwick County, Kansas. Taken together, these items give substance to a quickly deteriorating situation that came to characterize the COVID-19 experience in Sedgwick County during the COVID summer of 2020.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 2, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Starkey, Inc.

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Aaron Peterka

Partner (Dublin Core)

Northeastern University

Type (Dublin Core)

Emails

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English NGOs (non-profits)

English Community & Community Organizations

English Home & Family Life

English Public Space

English Government State

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

special needs

reopening

closures

Sedgwick County

Kansas

Starkey

guidelines

surge

Collection (Dublin Core)

Healthcare

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Stay Strong, Wichita

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/28/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/09/2020

11/03/2020

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/02/2020

06/09/2020

06/16/2020

06/23/2020

07/14/2020

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on July 28, 2020 by Aaron Peterka using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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