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With Christmas on Saturday, it’s going to be a short work week for many Kansas Citians, but definitely not all. Here are 10 stories to keep an eye on this holiday week.

Let’s hope you don’t have any kind of accident or illness in the next few days. Kansas City area hospitals say they’re out of beds this holiday week. 

Surging COVID cases are bringing a 2020 feel to the end of 2021.

Local hospital leaders held a dire video conference call on Friday.

This is what we know so far: HCA Midwest currently has 43 patients waiting for beds. That’s the hospital chain that runs Research, Overland Park and Menorah Medical Centers.

At AdventHealth Shawnee Mission, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Lisa Hays says: ”The beds are not the issue, it’s the nurses to staff …