Page 11 - Eric Maze News Today

Growing number of colleges require coronavirus vaccine to attend COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Colleges and universities across the county have started to announce coronavirus vaccine mandates for students attending classes. One of the first schools to announce mandatory vaccination for students was Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, effective this fall. The vaccination mandate has some exceptions, including medical and religious reasons as well as attending all-online classes. Since the a...

Boone Hopsital Center will host the vaccination clinic from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Columbia Mall on Thursday.

Columbia/Boone County PHHS and Boone Hospital will also receive and administer doses this week.

MU Health Cares mass vaccination event started Thursday morning for those eligible in Phase 1B, Tier 1 and 2.

With help from a number of organizations, Cole County plans to vaccinate 2,000 people at The Linc on Friday. Only those that pre-registered and received an appointment are eligible for the vaccine. Those eligible include those in Phase 1A or Phase 1B, Tier 1 and 2.  Boone County wrapped up the first day of its mass vaccination clinic at Faurot Field. MU Health Care confirmed it gave out 2,056 Moderna vaccine doses. MU Health Cares mass vaccination event started Thursday morning for those eli...

Missouri is allocating vaccines to about 30 hospitals across the state. MU Health Care is in Group A and will receive 4,000 doses this week.

COLUMBIA — MU Health Care accidentally invited some MU students to sign-up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine over the weekend. The email, sent out on Dec. 30, asked students to make an appointment to get the first round of the vaccine on Jan. 3. This is the original email sent to some School of Nursing and School of Health Professions students including a sign-up for vaccinations. However, a second email sent on Jan. 3 claimed the initial email was only intended for students “if they...

Updated at 2:15 p.m. to include information about the victims condition. A Columbia man standing in the parking lot near Sams Club was hit Thursday morning and is now hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. Shawn M. Taylor was in critical condition at University Hospital Friday afternoon, MU Health Care media relations strategist Eric Maze said.  Taylor was hit around 9:30 a.m. by a car that struck the concrete median divider separating a driveway on the south side of Lowe’s and on...

KMIZ COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri Health Care will not take the state up on its offer of extra staffing to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. MU Health said in a statement Tuesday that is has already signed contracts to bring in extra traveling nurses, making the states help unneeded. "We continue to monitor our staffing situation closely and have contingency plans in place to adjust our staffing as our patients’ needs change," MU Health spokesman Eric Maze said in a statemen...