Nearly all COVID deaths in U.S. are now among unvaccinated
Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective…
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Unvaccinated Missourians fuel COVID: ‘We will be the canary’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As the U.S. emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, Missouri is becoming a cautionary tale for…
Drop in childhood vaccinations stirs concern about school outbreaks
Routine childhood vaccinations dropped dramatically during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, and although they began rebounding last summer as families…
Deaths from heart disease, diabetes climbed amid COVID-19
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. saw remarkable increases in the death rates for heart disease, diabetes and some other…
COVID surge in northern Missouri stirs worry for summer
In the last week of April, the Linn County Health Department signaled that the COVID-19 pandemic had cooled enough that…
Opinion: What’s behind the CDC’s decision to drop masks for fully vaccinated
In other times, a “masks off” announcement might have been celebrated. Instead, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stepped…
Stark racial disparities persist in vaccinations, CDC data show
Black Americans’ covid-19 vaccination rates are still lagging months into the nation’s campaign, while Hispanics are closing the gap and…
Free testing aims to curb sexually transmitted infections ignored as COVID-19 spread
As the case counts of the COVID-19 coronavirus began to tick up across Missouri in March 2020, providers who offer…
Page, Jones announce relaxed COVID-19 guidelines
CITY HALL – The day after the federal government significantly eased mask guidelines, county and city officials announced they were…
FDA green-lights Pfizer vaccine for ages 12-15; CDC still to act
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has signed off on expanding the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to…
U.S. virus toll projected to drop by end of July
NEW YORK (AP) — Health experts are projecting the coronavirus toll in the U.S. will wane dramatically by the end…
State struggles to track virus cases among the vaccinated
ST. LOUIS COUNTY (AP) — Missouri has reported just 14 breakthrough COVID-19 cases among people who are fully vaccinated to…
Many Americans can now go outside without a mask, CDC says
NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks…
Johnson & Johnson vaccine goes under review after suspension
The one-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is being studied by independent scientists and medical experts after several cases of…
880,000 more Missourians now eligible for vaccinations
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — An estimated 880,000 Missourians became eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccination Monday under Phase 2 of…
‘Vaccine passports’ that show you’re inoculated are on the way
WASHINGTON — More than 70 million Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine — and along…