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5:25 p.m.: CPS 14-day case rate at 12.2, 15 total cases
The Columbia Public Schools 14-day case rate per 10,000 people is at 12.2.
The updated CPS student tracker shows 219 students in the district currently in quarantine and 9Â active student cases.
The district has seen 2,907 quarantined student cases and 655 positive student cases since June 2020.Â
The updated CPS staff tracker also shows 9 staff members currently in quarantine and 1Â active staff cases. 1 staff member is out due to EFMLA laws.
The tracker also shows 61.3% of CPS staff members have been vaccinated as of April 12.
5:35 p.m.: Cole County adds 9 cases since Friday
The Cole County Health Department will now show positive case totals by day, which reflects the date the specimen was collected instead of the date the results were received by the Health Department.
Some Missourians travel hundreds of miles for Cooper County emergency vaccine clinic
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A two-day vaccine clinic at the Isle of Capri Casino Hotel in Booneville left the Cooper County Health Department with 330 extra doses of coronavirus vaccine.
Some Missourians traveled more than one hundred miles just to receive the shot Friday at an emergency clinic set up by the health department in order to use up the extra doses.
Melanie Hutton, Cooper County Health Department director, said the department is grateful to help Missourians struggling to find a shot in urban areas of the state. We are always glad to help, as a rural county without a hospital, we have to go out of county to get hospital services and our residents need to reminded we can t just serve them, we need to serve other people back in return, Hutton said.
It s disappointing, Melanie Hutton said. We have to use up what resources we have.
Hutton said 25 to 50 people an hour were no shows at Cooper County s mass vaccination clinic on Monday and Tuesday. The county scheduled 2,000 appointments between Monday and Tuesday. By the end of both days, 330 doses of Pfizer and Moderna were still unused. By delaying and choosing that one dose of vaccine versus the two dose series, you re delaying your immunity, and you re delaying your ability to help the overall community, Hutton said.
Cooper County decided Wednesday to have a third clinic day on Friday at the health department so the extra do not go to waste. The clinic is already booked with appointments from the state s survey list.Â