by Ashley Byrd | Nov 12, 2020 | Education, Health / Medicine, News
Governor Mike Parson and state education director Margie Vandeven have loosened the guidelines for making students and staff quarantine after exposure to someone with COVID-19, if both people were properly wearing masks. Vandeven explained at a press conference...
by Ashley Byrd | Nov 11, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Director told Missouri legislators that the state is “fully prepared to start vaccinating people in December” if the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr....
by Ashley Byrd | Nov 3, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
A COVID-19 vaccine could be approved soon, says Missouri’s senior U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, who has been involved in fast-tracking the process. “There are about four that are looking good right now and others being developed. Washington University is looking...
by Ashley Byrd | Oct 30, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News
Halloween should be scary—in a fun way—and yet stay safe, say county public health officials. The pandemic is still spreading in Missouri and Shelby County Health Director Audrey Gough says in her 34 years in public health this is the first time she’s had to issue...
by Ashley Byrd | Oct 29, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News
To deal with increased coronavirus cases in some areas of the state, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced free COVID-19 surge testing that will continue each week until the end of the year in Columbia, Branson, St. Louis, Cape Girardeau,...