St. Louis Department of Health

Instead of relying on large-scale clinics that distribute thousands of COVID-19 vaccine shots a day as they once did, St. Louis health workers are working with smaller community organizations and clinics to persuade skeptical patients to get the shot.

The St. Louis City Department of Health is working with the city's Fire Department and the St. Louis Area Agency on Aging to vaccinate residents who can’t leave their homes because of their age or disability.

In the past week, children and teens 19 and younger have made up 22% of the city’s new coronavirus cases, said Dr. Fred Echols, acting director of the St. Louis Department of Health. That’s up more than 10 percentage points from what health officials have seen throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

Contact tracers track down and tell potentially infectious people to isolate themselves to keep others from getting sick with the coronavirus. But the effort takes more than a phone and a list of names to be successful.

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