Pandemic making nursing shortage a crisis in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The relentless toll of the pandemic has worsened the ongoing nursing shortage at St. Louis area…
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‘Their tank is empty’: Public health officials combat staff burnout, low pay, harassment
WASHINGTON — Eighteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local public health departments that were already struggling with too few…
Missouri COVID cases for September top July’s toll
The coronavirus Delta variant wave that hit Missouri in May and peaked in early August continued to abate in September, but the decline has been slow.…
Missouri schools adapt as labor shortages upend meal supply chain
Shawndra Taylor had just 12 hours’ notice when the first truck canceled. It was to have contained food to help…
COVID-related attacks prompt Missouri hospital to issue panic buttons
Nurses and hundreds of other staff members will soon begin wearing panic buttons at a Missouri hospital where assaults on…
Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5-11 may be available in November
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer has submitted research to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the effectiveness of its COVID-19…
Judge rejects Missouri attorney general’s challenge to school mask mandates
Face masks will stay on for students and teachers in districts requiring them, a Boone County judge ruled Tuesday, handing…
Guns, pandemic, police use of force helped fuel 2020 homicide spike
Homicides in the U.S. spiked by almost 30% in 2020. That was the main takeaway from figures released on Sept. 27, 2021, by…
Missouri HBCUs use federal relief funds to clear pandemic-related student debt
Harris-Stowe State University junior De’Ketra Tatum remembers listening to a lecture in February 2020 about what could happen if the…
Who will get a booster shot? A Q-and-A about what the feds are saying
WASHINGTON — Booster shots soon will begin rolling out to some Americans who received the two-shot vaccine made by Pfizer—after…
Orphaned, infected, in crisis: How the pandemic is traumatizing children
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic has brought heartbreaking consequences for millions of U.S. children, even as most avoided serious illness themselves,…
Many hurdles for families with food challenges, poll shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans struggling to feed their families over the past pandemic year say they have had difficulty…
Missouri AG’s push to sue every school with mask mandate heads to court next week
Orders requiring school children to wear masks in class will be tested in court next week, when a Boone County…
Opinion: ‘Mild’ breakthrough case of COVID-19 can be unpleasant surprise
The test results that hot day in early August shouldn’t have surprised me — all the symptoms were there. A…
COVID-19 vaccine works in children ages 5-11, Pfizer reports
Pfizer said Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11 and that it will seek U.S.…
COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu
COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S.…