The state now has a seven day positivity rate of 14.7% on Saturday. The charge in positivity comes along with 2,045 additional confirmed cases bringing the total to 569,796 since the start of pandemic. Health officials also recorded 733 new probable cases with a total number of 109,785 antigen test results being positive. Seventeen new
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City Mayor Carrie Tergin is pleading for Cole County residents to get vaccinated after the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) listed Cole and Osage Counties as coronavirus hot spots in a new advisory. “I just can’t tell the community enough how important it is to keep distance between
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending a coronavirus vaccine booster shot.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) All Mizzou students, faculty, staff and visitors will have to mask up indoors starting Monday, regardless of vaccination status. “With our in person classes, we know we’re going to have to make these adjustments with the mask requirements, and again we’re asking for everybody’s cooperation,” said Christian Basi, an MU spokesperson. “The
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President Joe Biden will deliver remarks Thursday afternoon outlining the country’s next steps in the fight against coronavirus and the highly contagious delta variant.
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The money covers the debts of about 930 students who owe money for semesters from spring 2020 through this summer. The university said in a news release that the move “provides one less worry for students in these current times.”
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now advised everyone to wear masks indoors in coronavirus hot spots such as Mid-Missouri.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Around 20 doses were given out Wednesday at the food truck roundup in Columbia today, and although these are not the numbers that were being vaccinated at former mass vaccination sights, vaccinators say that every dose counts. “Every person counts, that is one less person that can contract Covid,” said Nurse Taylor
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Less than two weeks after the Missouri Chamber of Commerce announced its COVID Stops Here program, 100 businesses have achieved at least 70% vaccination.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The White House is strongly considering requiring federal employees to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19, or submit regular testing and wear a mask at all times. On Tuesday, Pres. Joe Biden said this was “under consideration,” and is expected to announce the mandate Thursday. According to data from Missouri’s Economic Research
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The new guidelines apply to people vaccinated against the coronavirus and those who aren’t. But many people remain opposed to wearing masks, including having their children wear them to school.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia/Boone County Public Health & Human Services says right now there are no plans to reinstate a health order despite new masking guidelines from the CDC. In a group call on Tuesday, the CDC said vaccinated people in some parts of the country should again start wearing masks indoors in public areas.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will make an announcement regarding masking recommendations at 2 p.m.
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The American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Public Health Association have all called for health care organizations to require their workers to get the coronavirus vaccine.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In just one week, the number of vaccines ordered in Missouri increased by 14,350. This is the biggest jump seen in nearly two months. For the week of May 31, Missouri ordered just 1,670 doses of the vaccine, then for the week of June 7, vaccine orders increased slightly to 7,540. In
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