May 28, 2022 · moindependent
Missouri’s health department is appealing a Cole County judge’s ruling that put the state on the hook to pay at…
May 4, 2021 · moindependent
The same day as Randall Williams’ sudden resignation as Missouri’s top health official, another key member of the executive branch…
April 23, 2021 · MetroSTL Staff
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson said Thursday that he hoped to name a new state health director quickly…
March 16, 2021 · jaco
Gov. Mike Parson and his politicized “health” department crowing about Missouri’s “balanced” approach to COVID is like an arsonist hired…
February 17, 2021 · jaco
I got my COVID-19 vaccine by accident. As a certified geezer (70, cardiac pacemaker, blah blah blah) I wanted to…
January 21, 2021 · MetroSTL Staff
(AP) — Missouri plans mass vaccination sites by the end of the month in an effort to get more protection…
December 15, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
(AP) — Health care workers in both of Missouri’s urban areas received doses of the coronavirus vaccine Monday afternoon —…
December 11, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri expects to receive more than 220,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines by about Christmas if federal…
December 5, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Children’s hospitals here have started treating adult patients as area hospitals struggle to keep up with…
December 4, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s health director said Friday that the state should be able to vaccinate all hospital workers,…
November 14, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri health officials reported on Saturday the state’s biggest one-day increase in COVID-19 cases amid record…
November 9, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has less than two months to spend roughly $1 billion in federal coronavirus aid, the…
November 2, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
(AP) — Missouri hospital leaders are raising alarms about bed capacity as coronavirus cases continue to spike, with some urging…
October 15, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
(AP) — The number of people hospitalized for the coronavirus in Missouri reached another record Thursday, and the seven-day average…
October 12, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
JEFFERSON CITY — A “database extract error” resulted in an incorrect inflation of the number of reported COVID-19 cases in…
August 26, 2020 · MetroSTL Staff
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Washington University saliva test for the coronavirus has been approved by the Food and Drug…