Vaccinations

Federal health officials on Tuesday gave final approval for a lower dose of the Pfizer vaccine to be administered to kids as young as 5.

Nearly twice as many people in St. Louis County are getting a COVID-19 booster shot than are getting their first or second shots

The Belle-Clair Fairgrounds started offering booster shots on Tuesday. It will operate three days a week for the next three weeks.

“We strongly encourage appointments. As they become available, we’ll have those posted on our website,” the county’s health department director said.

Garcia talked with St. Louis Public Radio as part of a Left Bank Books event for his new book, "We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation."

“We do not feel safe,” a parent said during a protest.

Long after the National Guard closed its mass vaccination clinic at the Dome, the Urban League continues to administer shots daily in underserved areas of St. Louis. James Clark, vice president of public safety and community response, discusses how that work is going.

Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration gave full approval of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. And while that doesn’t directly affect the legality of vaccine mandates in the workplace, it may make it easier for employers to institute one.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he is closely watching the southwestern Illinois counties that border Missouri, which have the highest growth of new COVID-19 infections in the country.

Public health experts believe that vaccine hesitancy and refusal are largely to blame for the proliferance of the delta variant and that coronavirus infection rates will continue to increase if vaccination rates remain stagnant.