COVID-19

A federal judge in St. Louis on Monday temporarily barred the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from requiring health care workers in Missouri and nine other states to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

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School boards throughout Missouri have had to make consequential decisions that sometimes were not popular around masking and remote schooling.

A Missouri judge has barred local health departments from issuing orders to protect people during the coronavirus pandemic.

Last year, COVID-19 pushed the persistent problem of healthy food access toward crisis levels. The number of meals provided by The St. Louis Area Foodbank, which serves 14 Missouri counties and 12 in Illinois, increased by 53% to nearly 53 million between June 2019 and June 2021, data from the nonprofit show.

Many parents hurried to get their children the COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved it for ages 5 through 11. St. Louis area health officials say there's more than enough to go around.

Missouri has laid out multiple options for keeping kids safe while still letting them learn in person.

Eight animals in the zoo’s Big Cat Country habitat likely caught the coronavirus from a human carrier, zoo officials said. The cats had all received the COVID-19 vaccine and are expected to make a full recovery.

St Louis health workers are concerned that conspiracy theories about how scientists developed the vaccine, along with mistrust of public health agencies, could be leading some people to avoid other immunizations like the yearly flu shot.

“Masks, vaccines, and testing requirements are life-saving measures that keep our workplaces and communities safe," the governor said.