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WEDNESDAY UPDATES: Saline County reports COVID-19 related death and 32 new cases

December 23, 2020 11:25 AM ABC 17 News Team

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Boone County businesses paid fines for COVID-19 violations

December 23, 2020 5:58 AM Ben Fein

ABC 17 News obtained court documents detailing businesses in Boone County that violated COVID-19 guidelines.

WATCH: Jefferson City hospitals see small increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations

December 23, 2020 9:33 AM Matt Ragsdale

Jefferson City area hospital officials, the Cole County Health Department director, as well as, Jefferson City’s Mayor and the County Commission’s presiding commissioner all spoke on the call.

Pfizer to supply US with additional 100M vaccines doses

December 23, 2020 8:52 AM Associated Press

Pfizer and BioNTech will supply the U.S. with an additional 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine under a new agreement.

Hospitals say first round of vaccinations was successful

December 22, 2020 6:12 PM Sydney Olsen

Local hospitals in mid-Missouri have been providing COVID-19 vaccinations to staff as they received the first shipments of the Pfizer vaccine.

MONDAY UPDATES: Boone Hospital Center to forgo Moderna coronavirus vaccine

December 21, 2020 9:01 AM ABC 17 News Team

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Moderna vaccinations could begin in Missouri as soon as this week.

Moderna vaccine expected to hit Mid-Missouri this week

December 21, 2020 4:51 AM Zach Boetto

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Health workers could get the Moderna vaccine as soon as Monday. A spokesperson for Cedarhurst, a long-term care community with a facility in Columbia, said it would be getting about 70,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine possibly this week. Both the Food and Drugs Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and

DHSS director authorizes medical professionals to give Moderna vaccine

December 20, 2020 7:27 PM Sydney Olsen

Randall Williams, director of the Department of Health and Senior Services signs a standing order for the Moderna vaccine Sunday.

Columbia and Boone County leaders scheduled to meet to discuss COVID-19

December 20, 2020 4:39 AM Ben Fein

Both the Boone County Commission and Columbia’s City Council are scheduled to meet tomorrow and both are expected to discuss COVID-19.

SATURDAY UPDATES: State reports more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases

December 19, 2020 2:28 PM Sydney Olsen

The Department of Health and Senior Services reported Saturday there have been 363,114 cases of COVID-19 across the state. Missouri ranks 19th in the nation for new cases in the last seven days.

What’s really in the coronavirus vaccine?

December 18, 2020 2:16 PM Zola Crowder

The coronavirus vaccine is now available to front line health care workers in Missouri, but what’s really in the vaccine?

Latest ‘red zone’ report calls for more state, local COVID-19 restrictions

December 18, 2020 5:56 AM Ben Fein

The White House ‘red zone’ report obtained by ABC News on Thursday called on Missouri to increase statewide and local mitigation efforts.

THURSDAY UPDATES: Cole County reports 43 new COVID-19 cases

December 17, 2020 4:53 AM ABC 17 News Team

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Boone County health department requests additional vaccine doses for health clinics

December 17, 2020 1:43 PM Zola Crowder

The Columbia/Boone County health department has requested coronavirus vaccines from the state to help vaccinate smaller health clinics as well as patient-facing health department workers.