The agreement will allow a dramatic increase in the speed and pace of first-responder vaccinations Author: Sasha Sander (KSDK) Updated: 6:40 AM CST January 28, 2021
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. In partnership with the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, St. Louis County is collaborating with SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to as many as 4,000 area first responders.
The agreement will allow a dramatic increase in the speed and pace of first-responder vaccinations.
Under the agreement, first responders in the St. Louis County area, including St. Louis County police, fire personnel and county-based federal law enforcement employees will start receiving vaccinations at the hospital Monday morning.
Should you double mask against COVID-19? St. Louis health experts weigh in If you feel like your mask doesn’t fit well or gaping on the sides and you feel another mask will help make it stay in place, then that provides some value Author: Justina Coronel (KSDK) Updated: 10:21 PM CST January 27, 2021
ST. LOUIS Are two better than one? This may be the case for mask-wearing.
With new COVID-19 strains circulating, the head of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force thinks that s the reason double masking became a more prominent idea. Because they are transmissible that means the probability to get infected is higher, Dr. Alex Garza said.
Experts in all corners of Missouri are seeing room for optimism in the fight against the coronavirus thanks to a decline in new cases, decreasing hospitalizations and other factors.
Evidence suggests that the post-holiday spike is over, and things are improving. The seven-day average for new cases reported Tuesday was 27.2% lower than the previous seven-day average, according to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard. Hospitalizations remain high, but are declining.
Dr. Alex Garza of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force says there are plenty “signs of hope” given the improvement at a time of year when illnesses tend to run high.
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Alabama
Birmingham: The Birmingham VA Health Care System is expanding its ability to vaccinate veterans against COVID-19, provided it can get enough doses. A partnership with the United Way of Central Alabama will allow the agency to provide as many as 1,000 shots a day beginning this week to veterans who are at least 65 years old, the VA said. That’s up from the current daily total of 300 people. The change comes because the VA’s vaccine clinic is moving into a United Way building in downtown Birmingham. Chief executive Stacy Vasquez said the system will schedule as many veterans as it can for shots, but obtaining additional vaccine is key. “Right now, I have enough vaccine to take care of 5,000 people next week. But then after that, unless I get another shipment, I don’t know,” Vasquez told WBRC-TV last week. The VA’s vacc