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Federal officials each week tell states how many vaccine doses they will receive. After that, state officials direct the shipments to hospitals, health departments and other vaccination sites. But that number can vary by thousands of doses each week, and vaccinators get little notice of how many doses to expect. That makes it difficult to make appointments for the millions of people now eligible to receive the vaccine in Missouri.
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Public health officials in Missouri and Illinois are bracing for a surge in coronavirus cases after Thanksgiving gatherings. Health experts had cautioned against traditional family dinners and parties for the holiday, as the virus is mostly being spread through small gatherings in private residences.
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With thousands of new coronavirus cases being diagnosed each day and patients crowding into hospitals, some intensive care units in Missouri are nearly full. But health care workers say the worst is yet to come, and they warn more lives will be lost without a coordinated statewide response.
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Hospitals in St. Louis have reached or exceeded patient capacity limits, public health officials said Monday. If more people don't wear masks and keep their distance from others, doctors say there won't be enough staff to take care of coronavirus patients who need help.
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Regional St. Louis hospitals are bearing some of the burden of the rise in rural coronavirus cases. Doctors are worried that could strain capacity as the virus starts spreading more in St. Louis and St. Louis County.
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The region’s hospitals could soon be overwhelmed with patients as more people are admitted to the hospital with the coronavirus, health officials said Monday. An average of 342 patients with confirmed coronavirus cases are in hospitals in the region’s four largest health care systems each day, and nearly 50 people with the virus are being admitted daily.
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The main metro areas in Missouri are seeing coronavirus numbers that are stable and moving slowly. Much of the outstate region is experiencing a spike in cases.
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As of Sunday. 13, the bistate region has seen more than 1,500 deaths from COVID-19 since the first person tested positive in March. Doctors say they’ve become better at treating cases of COVID-19 and preventing its spread, but that life will not go back to a pre-pandemic “normal” until at least the end of 2021.
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St. Louis-area hospitals admitted 66 new coronavirus patients on Monday. That marked the highest single-day count since mid-April. New hospital admissions have only risen above the 60-person mark three times previously, and all those days were at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Missouri this week saw a dramatic increase in the number of coronavirus cases, with nearly 800 people testing positive on Thursday.The seven-day average…