Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services has launched a new site where residents can input their contact information and test results.

MU Health Care is opening a new COVID-19 collection site on Tuesday, January 18. The announcement comes after active cases in Boone County hit a record high of 3,308 on August 13, 2022.

Dr. Laura Hesemann sits down with the Health & Wealth Desk to provide an update on how MU Health is faring amid the omicron wave.

The Board of Curators' decision not to require masks comes as the state experiences the worst COVID-19 infection rates it has seen since the start of the pandemic.

MU Health Care is once again tightening restrictions on hospital and clinic visitors, as COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the region – largely due to the omicron variant.

Missourians cannot currently order at-home PCR COVID-19 tests from the state due to a sharp increase in demand for tests because of the omicron variant of the disease.

Testing of wastewater from Jackson and Buchanan counties has revealed the presence of the highly transmissible omicron variant.

While there are concerns about omicron's transmissibility, the amount of mutations the variant possesses make it easily detectable

Through the first six months of 2021, nearly 800 Missourians died from opioid overdose; well over half the total number of deaths in 2020. Law enforcement and public health experts say the synthetic opioid fentanyl is largely to blame.

An interview with Dana Farber oncologist Dr. Miranda Lam, about her research on Medicaid expansion and cancer mortality.