JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services held a virtual meeting Friday morning to update the current COVID-19 situation in Missouri.
The meeting was led by Acting Director of Health and Senior Services Robert Knodell, State Epidemiologist Dr. George Turabelidze and Director of the Division of Community and Public Health Adam Crumbliss. The focus included the recent spike in COVID-19 cases resulting from the spread of the delta variant.
Knodell said vaccination is the best defense against the delta variant. He also said the state has entered into an agreement with Vizient to make sure healthcare facilities are able get the support they need. Through this agreement, hospitals can request additional staff from Vizient for surge staffing needs.Â
JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services held a virtual meeting Friday morning to update the current COVID-19 situation in Missouri.
The meeting was led by Acting Director of Health and Senior Services Robert Knodell, State Epidemiologist Dr. George Turabelidze and Director of the Division of Community and Public Health Adam Crumbliss. The focus included the recent spike in COVID-19 cases resulting from the spread of the delta variant.
Knodell said vaccination is the best defense against the delta variant. He also said the state has entered into an agreement with Vizient to make sure healthcare facilities are able get the support they need. Through this agreement, hospitals can request additional staff from Vizient for surge staffing needs.Â
KMIZ
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The state s health department is now tackling issues brought by the growing supply of coronavirus vaccine doses and shrinking demand.
Data of the state s COVID-19 vaccination website shows the numbers trending downward, reporting the 7-day average of doses given has dropped to 28,046 as of Monday. The state s peak 7-day vaccination rate was 54,012 reported on April 11.
During the Department of Health and Senior Services weekly call with vaccine providers across the state, leaders addressed questions about the drop in people getting the shot.
The director of the Division of Community and Public Health Adam Crumbliss asked vaccinators to pivot to smaller-scale vaccine events that are more targeted.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
The Department of Health and Senior Services said Saturday it is reviewing for potentially duplicated COVID-19 test results, that could impact past positivity rates.
in a news release sent Saturday, DHSS said it identified some difficulties with it s new online reporting system that created numerous additional records. Staff will now have to manually review and match of records.
The department says a large proportion of these negative test records are redundant, with the exception of up to 8 positive test records that had been incorrectly processed.
Leaders say this could have an impact of possibly overstating the Missouri COVID-19 positivity rate. A review of the maximum possible impact of these potential data changes resulted in a 7-day average positivity rate that decreased by less than 1% at any given time.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
State health leaders are transitioning the allocation model of the coronavirus vaccine from the overall population to the eligible population by the end of March.
Information about the plan was shared during a meeting with vaccine distributors and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services on Tuesday afternoon.
Tier 3 of the state s vaccination plan will make 550,000 Missourians eligible starting on March 15.
The Director of the Division of Community & Public Health Adam Crumbliss said the shift will happen by the week of March 29.
https://twitter.com/ConnorHirschTV/status/1369400000325816322 It s really based again on, now that we are moving into more of the general population, we feel like we really need to start focusing on our numbers on the unvaccinated that are in open and eligible populations.