Alexander Garza

Dr. Alexander Garza said the best way to prepare for a future pandemic is to improve social resources, such as food access, education and transportation.

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.

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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