COVID-19 booster shots to roll out starting next month
WASHINGTON — Top U.S. health officials announced a plan Wednesday to begin offering COVID-19 booster shots to Americans starting Sept. 20, with…
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All city employees must get vaccinated or undergo weekly tests
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mayor Tishaura Jones has ordered city employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing.…
National Park Service renews mask mandate for all visitors
WASHINGTON — The National Park Service reinstated on Monday a mask mandate for all visitors, workers and volunteers at NPS…
Missouri’s COVID death rate among nation’s worst
The summer surge of COVID-19 is causing a spike in deaths in Missouri, including 124 reported Tuesday. The state health…
Burke, virus skeptic and critic of Pope Francis, is hospitalized with COVID-19
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the Catholic Church’s most outspoken conservatives and a vaccine skeptic, said…
Some area parents are urging schools to require masks
ARNOLD, Mo. (AP) — With the start of the new school year fast approaching, some parents in two suburban St.…
U.S. mulls COVID vaccine boosters for elderly as early as fall
WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning of tough days ahead with surging COVID-19 infections, the director of the National Institutes of Health said…
Immunosuppressed people grapple with returning to work
Elizabeth Groenweghe got a kidney transplant 14 years ago. She now takes several medications to prevent her body from rejecting…
Mostly unmasked crowds pack into Missouri State Fair
SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) — Mostly unmasked crowds packed into the Missouri State Fair shoulder-to-shoulder this week as it opened in…
Praise, doubts as Facebook rolls out prayer tool
Facebook already asks for your thoughts. Now it wants your prayers. The social media giant has rolled out a new…
Opinion: In our mad, polarized, COVID surge summer, the only way out is through
It all kind of piled up this week: COVID hospitalizations and deaths are up. We’re still trying to convince the unvaccinated to get…
COVID exposure from St. Louis County Council meeting unclear
CLAYTON (AP) — Health officials say they are struggling to track down a crowd of anti-mask protesters who attended a…
Missouri COVID death toll ignores antigen-tested cases as official tally tops 10,000
Missouri officially passed the grim milestone of 10,000 COVID-19 deaths Thursday when the Department of Health and Senior Services added…
Missouri tops 10,000 deaths from COVID-19 during pandemic
(AP) — The death toll from COVID-19 in Missouri has topped 10,000, according to the state health department’s coronavirus dashboard…
CDC urges COVID vaccination during pregnancy as Delta surges
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all pregnant women Wednesday to get the COVID-19 vaccine as hospitals in…
Jaco: Political vendettas are more important than public health
In a sane world, you wouldn’t need mask mandates. People would think public health was important enough to mask up…