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Borya | Flickr/Missouri lawmakers are considering legislation that would shield nursing homes and other businesses from coronavirus-related lawsuits. Some advocates worry the proposal will prevent nursing home residents from holding facilities legally responsible for abuse and neglect. -
Courtesy SNAP 2 It! Program, via St. Louis Farmers Market AssociationMany people in north St. Louis and north St. Louis County don't live near grocery stores. To help fill in the gap, the St. Louis Area Foodbank is bringing healthy food to those neighborhoods in a traveling fresh food pantry.
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“I just don’t trust them,” a detainee said of the jail administration and its handling of the coronavirus pandemic thus far. -
The barge industry claims it is green and could be more so. But environmentalists say even the cleanest towboats and barges will be bad for natural habitats.
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A rare ant native to Central America was named after the Missouri S&T biologist who helped identify the species.
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In the past week, children and teens 19 and younger have made up 22% of the city’s new coronavirus cases, said Dr. Fred Echols, acting director of the St. Louis Department of Health. That’s up more than 10 percentage points from what health officials have seen throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sen. Durbin toured Harding Ditch and met with some Centreville residents regarding flooding and sewage issues, but not with the group Centreville Citizens for Change.
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The federally run clinic at the Dome at America’s Center in downtown St. Louis is offering second doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Missouri residents, with no appointment needed.
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79% of voters in Cahokia Heights supported the measure to do away with Commonfields of Cahokia Public Water District.
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The St. Louis region will host several vaccination events the next two weeks where residents can get their first COVID-19 vaccine dose. The large-scale sites can vaccinate thousands of people a day, but infectious disease specialists say they may not accommodate many of those most at risk of becoming sick from the coronavirus — people who work retail jobs, poor people and those with chronic health issues.
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Workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Navy have arrived in downtown St. Louis to help vaccinate people against the coronavirus. State and local officials hope the two-month immunization event at the Dome at America’s Center will help fill the city’s “vaccination gap.” Nearly 28% of Missouri’s population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. However, only 19% of people in St. Louis have.
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The Missouri health department has acknowledged that it has used national data to estimate Missouri’s racial breakdown, rather than data based on the state's population. That information has been a source of frustration for local health officials working to ensure that vaccine distribution is equitable. State officials now plan to use 2019 U.S. Census data from Missouri but say some parts of the data remain problematic.
