WEDNESDAY UPDATES: Miller County Health Center to partner with Lake Regional Health Systems for vaccine clinics
Miller County Health Center is joining with Lake Regional Health Systems to host a variety of vaccine clinics throughout the county.
These clinics are appointment only and the vaccine will be free.
The health center in a Facebook post says it combined the contact list with Lake Regional’s and established a pool of staff to begin calling those on the lists, starting with those that have been on the list the longest.
The call center will contact you to schedule your appointment.
Clinics will be scheduled as vaccine arrives at either LRHS or our agency.
Boone County reports one week of only double-digit new COVID-19 cases
Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is reporting 79 new COVID-19 cases.
The dashboard is currently reporting 468 active cases.
This is the first full week the county has reported only double digit case increases. The last time this occurred was Oct. 26.
The county now has a reported total number of COVID-19 cases of 16,785.
The county has reported the total number of cases removed from isolation is 16,247, an increase of 72 from Tuesday.
Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services dashboard has reported the latest five-day average as 51.
The dashboard is reporting the positivity rate of 25.6% positivity rate for Jan. 22 through last Thursday.
The health department is reporting the total number of hospitalizations in Boone County is 63.
The number of Boone County residents hospitalized is reported to be 16.
The dashboard is reporting 26 COVID-19 patients in the ICU and 16 patients on ventilators.
The hospital status remains in the 'green' zone. 'Green status' says that hospitals are "Operating within licensed bed capacity; accepting patient transfers from referring hospitals within standard care operating procedures."
According to the Missouri Vaccine Dashboard, Boone County has the largest number of people vaccinated against the coronavirus with 6,911 having received their second dose.
The dashboard also reports that 16,501 have received their first dose.
The county has the third largest percentage of people that have received at least one dose of the vaccine with 9.1%. Cole County has the largest with 10% of the population have received the first dose of the vaccine. Pettis County is second with 9.5%.
Health department reports 1,200 new COVID-19 cases, fewer patients in ICU beds
Missouri health officials reported 1,200 more COVID-19 cases and that fewer patients were filling up statewide ICU beds on Wednesday.
Following increases of fewer than 1,000, the state added 1,233 additional cases to the pandemic total. The health department says 461,720 have tested positive for coronavirus since March.
Ten more virus-related deaths were reported on Wednesday bringing the pandemic total up to 7.098.
The dashboard said 398 were in ICUs because of COVID-19. It's the first time since admissions have fallen below 400 since Oct. 4. ICU admissions have mostly decreased since Dec. 22.
Hospital data included that coronavirus hospitalizations were down to 1,746 -- 40 fewer from Tuesday's update.
The state positivity rate saw a slight dip even with the increase in cases. Down 0.1% from the day before, the seven-day COVID-19 positivity rate was reported at 9.3%, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
The health department revised the positivity rate slightly -- it was originally reported at 9.2% on Tuesday.
The state vaccination dashboard said 553,095 doses of coronavirus vaccine have been administered in the state. Missouri vaccinators have given out 22,610 more doses over since Tuesday.
Boone County health department plans to start Tier 2 vaccinations
The Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services said it does not have any appointments available this week for first doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
Health officials sent an email to residents who filled out the PHHS vaccine survey, saying all appointments were booked.
PHHS also said it anticipates moving into Phase 1B, Tier 2 the week of Feb. 8. The health department is sending appointment invites for those who meet Tier 2 criteria.
MU Health Care is also set to vaccinate 4,000 people this week.
Under the new distribution plan from Missouri's Department of Public Health and Senior Services, 8 percent of weekly vaccine allocations will go to local public health agencies.
