St. Louis Public Radio
This Saturday marks one full year since then-President Trump and Missouri Gov. Mike Parson declared states of emergency related to the coronavirus pandemic.
A year ago this Saturday, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson declared a state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic, just a few hours after then-President Trump declared it a national emergency. As coronavirus cases spread and shutdowns got under way, few of us had any idea what to expect in the weeks and months ahead — nor would we have guessed the crisis would extend well beyond the year 2020.
“I think what we had was this feeling of the unknown,” Dr. Alex Garza, incident commander for the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, told