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Coronavirus
State seeks to boost prizes in local vaccination incentive program
Prizes awarded through a vaccine incentive program offered by local public health departments in Missouri may get boosted to $100…
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Business
Weary businesses confront new round of mask mandates
Businesses large and small, from McDonald’s and Home Depot to local yoga studios, are reinstituting mask mandates as U.S. coronavirus…
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St. Louis judge halts city evictions until Oct. 3, following CDC’s order
ST. LOUIS – St. Louis City Circuit Court has halted evictions for city residents through Oct. 3, mirroring the federal…
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Biden to allow eviction moratorium to expire Saturday
BOSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration announced Thursday that it will allow a nationwide ban on evictions to expire…
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Here’s why the CDC recommends wearing masks indoors even if fully vaccinated
Vaccinated people need to mask up again, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On July 27,…
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CDC changes course on indoor masks in some parts of U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed course Tuesday on some masking guidelines, recommending that even vaccinated people return…
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State officials urge CDC to waive $25 limit for vaccine incentives
Missouri requested Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reconsider its rejection of the state’s vaccine incentive plan.…
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Some summer camps hit with COVID; schools could be next
The U.S. has seen a string of COVID-19 outbreaks tied to summer camps in recent weeks in places such as…
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Opinion
Jaco: Welcome to the death lottery; wanna play?
The St. Louis Urban League isn’t usually known for anti-gambling activism. But their “All In” campaign launched this week is…
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CDC study finds racial, regional disparities as schools reopened
WASHINGTON — After last year’s abrupt shutdown of schools due to the coronavirus pandemic, increasing numbers of students returned to in-person…
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Nearly all COVID deaths in U.S. are now among unvaccinated
Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective…
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Unvaccinated Missourians fuel COVID: ‘We will be the canary’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As the U.S. emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, Missouri is becoming a cautionary tale for…
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Drop in childhood vaccinations stirs concern about school outbreaks
Routine childhood vaccinations dropped dramatically during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, and although they began rebounding last summer as families…
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Deaths from heart disease, diabetes climbed amid COVID-19
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. saw remarkable increases in the death rates for heart disease, diabetes and some other…
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COVID surge in northern Missouri stirs worry for summer
In the last week of April, the Linn County Health Department signaled that the COVID-19 pandemic had cooled enough that…
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Opinion
Opinion: What’s behind the CDC’s decision to drop masks for fully vaccinated
In other times, a “masks off” announcement might have been celebrated. Instead, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stepped…
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Coronavirus
Stark racial disparities persist in vaccinations, CDC data show
Black Americans’ covid-19 vaccination rates are still lagging months into the nation’s campaign, while Hispanics are closing the gap and…
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Health
Free testing aims to curb sexually transmitted infections ignored as COVID-19 spread
As the case counts of the COVID-19 coronavirus began to tick up across Missouri in March 2020, providers who offer…
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Page, Jones announce relaxed COVID-19 guidelines
CITY HALL – The day after the federal government significantly eased mask guidelines, county and city officials announced they were…
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FDA green-lights Pfizer vaccine for ages 12-15; CDC still to act
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has signed off on expanding the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to…
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U.S. virus toll projected to drop by end of July
NEW YORK (AP) — Health experts are projecting the coronavirus toll in the U.S. will wane dramatically by the end…
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State struggles to track virus cases among the vaccinated
ST. LOUIS COUNTY (AP) — Missouri has reported just 14 breakthrough COVID-19 cases among people who are fully vaccinated to…
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Many Americans can now go outside without a mask, CDC says
NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks…
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Johnson & Johnson vaccine goes under review after suspension
The one-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is being studied by independent scientists and medical experts after several cases of…
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880,000 more Missourians now eligible for vaccinations
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — An estimated 880,000 Missourians became eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccination Monday under Phase 2 of…
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‘Vaccine passports’ that show you’re inoculated are on the way
WASHINGTON — More than 70 million Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine — and along…
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Featured
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…
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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…
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Race data missing in half of vaccine records to CDC
ATLANTA — Three leading health organizations say stronger efforts are needed to collect and report race and ethnicity data about…
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Coronavirus
No plan to move Missouri teachers up in vaccine line
(AP) — Missouri has no plans to move teachers higher on the list for COVID-19 vaccinations, instead focusing on getting…
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