COVID-19 Impacts

Four Metro East school districts are using the Illinois Tutoring Initiative. The program, funded with state ARPA money, trains tutors to help elementary and middle school students make up for pandemic learning loss.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis debuts ‘Harvey Milk,’ ‘Awakenings’

In the greater St. Louis region, Southern Illinois University will help coordinate part of a statewide effort to provide tutors for students in districts that were highly affected by the pandemic.

The session was originally scheduled to start this week with three meeting days, but leaders announced last week they will meet only one day this week and likely will cancel all in-person meetings the following week, Jan. 11-13.

Nearly 85% of all coronavirus-related hospitalizations across the state are unvaccinated individuals.

It was common knowledge in the nursing home business, but perhaps not to the families trusting those facilities with a loved one’s care.

“Masks, vaccines, and testing requirements are life-saving measures that keep our workplaces and communities safe," the governor said.

More than 100 St. Louis area arts institutions are calling on St. Louis and St. Louis County officials to use federal coronavirus relief funding to help support the arts.

Black people and Latinos in St. Louis are more likely to live in areas with polluted air. Long-term exposure to air pollution is linked to faster coronavirus transmission, new research finds.

In northeast Missouri, where low populations translate into small hospitals, there were no ICU beds available.