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Serious complications from COVID-19 vaccines are extremely rare, and county employees can get tested instead of getting the shot.

The council also declined to approve a measure to open documents into an investigation of Acting Health Director Faisal Khan.

The mask mandate was first issued by County Executive Page in July. It was struck down by the county council, then a lawsuit from Missouri Attorney General Schmitt

Reports that commuters making less than $46,000 would not pay a fee at all. if you're a tourist in the city driving there, who knows. jillian: that's unbelievable. there's so many questions. returning to restrictions as cases of the delta variant begin to surge in st. louis county, a new mask order is back on the table for residents regardless of vaccination status. here to react, two local leaders fighting back against the order, the mayor, jim bolen and councilman, mark harder. thank you for being here, good to see you this morning. >> thank you. >> good morning, jillian. jillian: let's pull...

Mark, i'll go to you, considering you're the county councilman. i think some might argue they they thought this was -- what the vaccine was supposed to do was to keep people out of hospitals and keep some of these numbers down. i think a lot of people, yourself included, are having a hard time with this right now. >> we are, jillian. and the past few months we've been pushing vaccines and we've been trying to get everyone in the county at least one shot and we've succeeded in many cases. the county has about a 45% vaccine rate right now. the state of missouri is about 55%. and we've been tryin...