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Hannibal, Missouri, hosted a National Guard mass vaccination event, in conjunction with the local health department, in the first week of February. Many St. Louis-area residents traveled there for a shot.
Nadine Hutson pre-registered for the COVID-19 vaccine at a dozen places around Missouri before she scored one of the prized shots.
The advice from her friends was: The more rural, the easier it is to get a dose. Fewer people live in those counties, Hutson reasons.
After scouring the internet for vaccine appointments for nearly 10 hours, she spotted a clip in a Perryville newspaper announcing a vaccination event Jan. 29. “First come, first serve,” it read. Hutson, 67, who lives in south St. Louis County, left at 2:30 a.m. to drive south to Perry County and stand in line.
Parson has shown increasing irritation in recent weeks toward anyone who dares challenge his leadership. He blasted House Speaker Rob Vescovo for shutting down the House chamber during a coronavirus outbreak among members, forcing Parson to deliver his State of the State speech in the Senate chamber instead. He blasts news media coverage of his pandemic response, as if reporting the facts about coronavirus cases and maskless Parson campaign events constitutes bias against him.
But the facts speak for themselves. Parson refused to lead in the early days of the pandemic and instead punted authority to local officials for issuing unpopular shutdown orders and restrictions. He let them take the heat while he focused on his election campaign. Parson pooh-poohed the significance of mass gatherings and maskless parties like the superspreader event at a Lake of the Ozarks swimming pool/bar that garnered national headlines.
Dr. Randall Williams, Missouri s public health director, answering questions during a briefing last year.
When the St. Louis County Department of Public Health saw itself listed among the hospitals expected to receive thousands of vaccines last week, it came as a surprise.
No one had told the health department or hospital systems that was the plan, or even what that meant setting off days of confusion over where the department was supposed to get its vaccine doses.
“What it has meant,” said Christopher Ave, spokesman for the county’s department of public health, “is that we have received no doses from the state.”