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KC WaterScientists at the University of Missouri and their partners at the state health department have uncovered trace amounts of genetic material from the more contagious mutated virus in 15 of the 23 state watershed testing sites they have reviewed so far. -
David Kovaluk/St. Louis Public RadioOn March 15, teachers, government employees and other essential workers will join health care workers, first responders and people with high-risk health conditions as those able to receive the coronavirus vaccine. That means about 3.5 million people, or more than half of Missouri's population, will then be eligible to get the vaccine.
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Vaccine doses have been so scarce near St. Louis that many area residents desperate for a shot have started traveling to rural parts of the state to find one.
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Nearly one-third of Missourians are now eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine — if they can find it. The confusion is prompting some to ethicists remind people that it's important that people wait until the most vulnerable get their shots first.
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In some rural counties, health agencies mistakenly doled out vaccines that were intended to be booster shots
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Propelled by the freezing weather this month, a group of St. Louis nonprofits worked together to make additional room for around 250 people in the past two weeks.
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As a result of the influx of outstate people trying to "cheat the system," fewer people in St. Clair County were able to receive their shots. None of the people who registered from other states got the vaccine.
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Officials from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services on Tuesday announced that starting this week, the federal government will send doses of the coronavirus vaccine to 81 Walmart and Sam's Club pharmacies across the state. Critics say that leaves St. Louis, with no Walmarts within city limits, out of the distribution plans.
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University of Missouri scientists have tested about 3,000 wastewater samples from water treatment plants, prisons, veterans homes and colleges and launched an online dashboard that shows where coronavirus concentrations are increasing. The project tests the wastewater of 4 million people, or nearly 70% of Missouri’s population.
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The county health department’s last vaccine shipment from the state was Jan. 19. The shortage doesn’t affect people waiting for their second doses, but it could stop the county from scheduling appointments for patients seeking the first shot.
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“I don’t want to create more disparity. We have already seen how horribly this virus has treated Black and brown communities,” Dr. Ngozi Ezike said Thursday at a virtual discussion hosted by Macedonia Baptist Church.
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Thousands of patients in the region are still scrambling to get the coveted coronavirus vaccine. Missouri has one of the lowest coronavirus vaccination rollouts in the country. As of this week, 6% of the state's 6 million residents have received their first dose of the vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
