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The CPS board voted 5-2 on the return to in-person learning.

More than 200 Columbia Public Schools employees eligible for the first round of vaccine COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As vaccine distribution continues across Mid-Missouri, a small group of Columbia Public Schools employees are able to sign up for a shot. A spokeswoman for the district confirmed that 216 employees are now able to sign up to receive a vaccine from Boone Hospital. Those eligible are school nurses and special education staff with "medically fragile" students in-person. In an email to teachers, the district said Boone Hospital has 150 vaccine doses available for that group right now, so ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The shipment of nearly 3,000 doses arrived at University Hospital around 6:45 p.m. MU Health Care executive director of pharmacy and laboratory services Brad Myers said the vaccine will start to be administered Wednesday morning at 7 a.m. and will likely be given to around 900 front line workers. "I can't tell you how excited we are," Myers said. "We had employees and even myself get teary-eyed thinking about 10 months of our lives being changed, and that we have a solution we can provide first to our employees then to the community." He said MU Health is hoping to get an...

https://vimeoassets.b-cdn.net/abc17news.com/2020/12/15/St._Mary’s_Hospital_starts_vaccinating_staff_against_coronavirus.jpg JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) St. Mary's Hospital in Jefferson City administered its first shots of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine Tuesday afternoon. SSM Health, which owns the hospital, accepted its first shipment of the vaccine at 10:30 a.m., inviting reporters and photographers inside to see employees unpack the doses. Alloch Burton, the Clinical Pharmacy Manager at St. Mary's, said they have extra space in the ultra cold freezer storage if more requests for vaccines a...

First shipments of coronavirus vaccine arrive in Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Hospitals across Missouri should have the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine this week, possibly as early as Monday. Gov. Mike Parson said on his social media accounts Monday afternoon that the first vials of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine have arrived in the state. The doses will go out to 21 sites across the state which will then being vaccinations, Parson said. BJC HealthCare spokeswoman Lauren High said Monday morning that BJC will get its first vaccine doses Monday or Tuesday. The company will receive about...