Timothy Wiemken, a professor and infectious disease expert at St. Louis University, gives a brief explanation of why you should be wearing a mask, the proper way to use your mask and a few things you shouldn t do with a mask. Video by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
ST. LOUIS â Hospital leaders and state officials are preparing to distribute COVID-19 vaccines in Missouri, and they expect that the first vaccinations are days away.
Department of Health and Senior Services Director Dr. Randall Williams told reporters on Friday that he believes the first COVID-19 vaccinations in Missouri will begin on Dec. 17. If the vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna both win emergency use authorization, the state expects to receive 340,000 total doses by the end of 2020, Williams said, and 2 million doses by the end of February.
Some health care workers in the St. Louis area have begun to receive the coronavirus vaccine Author: Marianne Martinez Updated: 2:08 PM CST December 18, 2020
ST. LOUIS With the Christmas holiday just one week away, the head of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force cautioned against large in-person gatherings. When you re planning for your holiday, know that we still have months to go, which, unfortunately, means more cases in our hospitals and more people in our intensive care units, Dr. Alex Garza said. So, this Christmas do everything you can to help keep your family safe.
Garza said he is optimistic about the rollout of the vaccine to some health care workers at hospitals across the region.
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Marci Damiano, a manager of clinical trials in the Department of Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine, explains why she got her first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at the school near Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. BJC Healthcare began the first-round of frontline healthcare workers at eight of their locations throughout Missouri. Video by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
ST. LOUIS â Two more St. Louis-area health systems rolled out large-scale COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday, giving hospital workers a source of optimism near the close of an exhausting year.
BJC HealthCare and SSM Health both planned to administer hundreds of doses to their health care workers in the region.
Updated: 3:22 PM CST December 17, 2020
ST. LOUIS After four consecutive days of reporting fewer than 3,000 new cases, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 3,569 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Thursday
The agency also reported 35 additional COVID-19-related deaths. Since the onset of the pandemic, Missouri has reported a total of 356,607 cases and 4,834 deaths. The statewide seven-day positivity rate is at 17.5%.
The Illinois Department of Public Health Thursday reported 8,828 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and including 181 additional deaths. The state s seven-day positivity rate is at 10%, up from 8.4% from the previous week.
During the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force briefing Wednesday, the incident commander, Dr. Alex Garza, said the numbers reached a plateau that is too high to maintain.