Virus casts long shadow, one year since city’s first case
CITY HALL – After a devastating year of living with COVID-19, officials hope the deaths and hospitalizations the disease brought…
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Mass vaccinations coming to SLCC Forest Park campus
ST. LOUIS – A mass vaccination event is planned next week at the Forest Park campus of St. Louis Community…
Page blasts Missouri’s ‘fumbled vaccine rollout’
(AP) — Missouri teachers and other school workers are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, even as St. Louis County Executive…
Rescue aid package may reduce income gap, but for how long?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have celebrated President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan as a blow against one of…
Missouri virus cases tick upward after months of decline
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s rate of new coronavirus cases is ticking upward after months of decline. The state’s coronavirus…
Pandemic hasn’t hit Missouri finances as hard as expected
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — A year ago, Gov. Mike Parson and other state leaders were bracing for the worst, acknowledging…
Task force urges independent oversight of Justice Center
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A task force appointed to examine concerns about the troubled St. Louis City Justice Center is…
St. Louis to be a center for Biden’s virus recovery plan
ST. LOUIS – The city is going to be one of the Stimulus Command Centers to implement President Joe Biden’s…
Missouri House backs curbs on COVID business closures
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Extended business closures by local health departments, as seen earlier in the coronavirus pandemic, would require…
CDC updates rules for the vaccinated; exclusive interview with Dr. Garza
ST. LOUIS • Dr. Alex Garza, the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force commander, shared some of the new CDC guidelines…
More restrictions eased as 1 million Missourians vaccinated
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A year after Missouri confirmed its first COVID-19 infection, local governments are continuing to relax coronavirus…
Parade helps Ferguson cancer survivor celebrate 6th birthday
FERGUSON – Paydenn was turning 6 but couldn’t have a birthday party, between the coronavirus pandemic and the fact that…
Vaccine is slow to reach Black Missourians
When the pandemic hit St. Louis last March, it soon became clear that the majority of COVID hospital patients were coming…
Year into pandemic, Missouri data miss 80,000 cases, 1,000 deaths
The Hickory County Health Department reported 853 total local COVID-19 cases in its weekly update Friday, five more than a week…
Open spaces, no pharmacies: Rural U.S. confronts vaccine void
SURRY, Va. (AP) — When Charlome Pierce searched where her 96-year-old father could get a COVID-19 vaccine in January, she…
Area researchers eye COVID-19-related disorder in children
(AP) — Medical researchers in St. Louis are trying to determine why a small percentage of children and young adults…