Advocates, lawmakers push hospitals to help more with bills
Swamped with medical bills? The hospital that treated you may be able to help. Whether you learn about this before…
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Fauci says trick-or-treating this year is fine
WASHINGTON – The government’s top infectious diseases expert says families can feel safe trick-or-treating outdoors this year for Halloween as…
St. Louis County officers ordered to get COVID vaccine shots
CLAYTON (AP) — The acting head of St. Louis County police has issued an order saying that all officers must…
Boosters, employer mandates drive increase in U.S. vaccines
The number of Americans getting COVID-19 vaccines has steadily increased to a three-month high as seniors and people with medical…
Cherry-picking Bible verses has been done for centuries, before anti-vaxers
A devout evangelical Christian recently texted to explain why he was not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. “Jesus went around healing…
Four trends in public school enrollment due to COVID-19
When schools began the fall semester of 2020 – six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic – many…
Inquiry into obscene gesture by St. Louis County health official not released
ST. LOUIS (AP) — No details are being released to elected officials or the public about an internal investigation into…
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…
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…