COVID-19

Researchers have found that long COVID sufferers experience a decrease in gray brain matter.

Attorneys Nicole Gorovsky, Connie McFarland-Butler and Bevis Schock tackle Eric Schmitt’s latest lawsuit on St. Louis on the Air’s Legal Roundtable.

In total, 25 school districts onboarded and 119 schools participated in the testing program, a small fraction of the schools across the state.

The city of Independence, Missouri, spent $2 million of its ARPA funding on the police department, more than it allocated to any other department or project. The purchases were labeled as “community violence intervention” in its report to the U.S. Treasury.

A federal emergency declaration that has allowed children to receive continuous Medicaid coverage throughout the pandemic could end soon, and health providers are worried.

An updated COVID-19 vaccine booster shot is hitting shelves in the St. Louis region this week after the federal government approved the shots for emergency use. Area health officials and doctors say everyone who can should get the updated booster, even if they’ve received the vaccine or previous boosters in the past.

The Washington Republican won a crowded GOP primary for the 26th Senate District, which takes in parts of St. Louis County and all of Franklin, Warren, Osage and Gasconade counties.

While COVID isn’t as big a concern this year, fairs are keeping in place some of the protocols they picked up during the pandemic. At the same time, they are keeping an eye on other threats to crowd levels.

Illinois, like the rest of the country, is seeing an increase of cases linked to the new, hyper-contagious variant of COVID-19.

In recent weeks, the BA5 variant has accounted for almost half of all COVID cases in Missouri. But state data doesn’t show how many people have contracted the BA.5 variant or include indicators like age, race or gender.