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Mar. 8—In Missouri's distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, the Kansas City region has been shorted about 40,000 doses, the director of the Kansas City Health Department said Monday. The region has received 20% of the state's allocation, but makes up 23% of the population, putting it about 40,000 doses behind, data from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services shows. Rex Archer, the ...

/ Anthony Guerra, 64, and John Garcia, 69, chat while waiting for their second dose of the Moderna vaccine at the Tony Aguirre Community Center on Monday. They were among many members of the Hispanic community on the West Side of Kansas City targeted by Truman Medical Centers to receive the vaccination. Racial data on COVID-19 vaccinations provided to media outlets by Missouri lacked dates or definitions to indicate what the numbers meant. Health experts have persistently warned that Black and Latino communities risk being left behind on COVID-19 vaccinations and that collecting racial and et...

COVID testing numbers down across Kansas City metro COVID-19 testing is down in Kansas City, which is both good and bad. and last updated 2021-03-08 08:08:13-05 LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — The number of people getting tested for COVID-19 around Kansas City, Missouri, is dropping, and health leaders say the trend is both good and bad. It’s good because the numbers of people getting sick, going to the hospital and dying are also down. It’s bad because health leaders rely on a baseline of tests to help them get the most accurate information to craft policies about masks, bar curfews,...

/ Karla Hunt, a registered nurse with the Platte County Health Department, vaccinates Phyllis McCaslin, 73, during a mass vaccination clinic in Riverside on Tuesday morning. Many Kansas City residents have made hours-long road trips to get COVID-19 vaccines when none were offered locally. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signaled a new direction in the state's COVID-19 vaccination plan on Monday, unveiling a revised distribution strategy for the state. The new plan will channel greater amounts of the vaccine into Missouri’s cities, which have lower vaccination rates than the state as a whole — a...

More than a half a million additional Missouri residents will be eligible to received COVID-19 vaccines by mid-March. Governor Mike Parson announced on