COVID-19

University of Missouri Health Care will soon offer Saturday drive-thru vaccination events for both the updated flu and the newly formulated COVID-19 vaccines – beginning this week.

The Biden Administration is providing $600 million to send at-home COVID tests to U.S. households and for manufacturers to produce them.

MU Health Care is offering Saturday drive-thru flu shot events at the South Providence Medical Park beginning Sept. 30.

The new, updated COVID-19 vaccine was approved yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and is expected to be available in coming days.

The Boone County Commission announced the names of organizations receiving funding Tuesday.

After a Cole County judge invalidated the regulations in 2021, then-Attorney General Eric Schmitt decided not to appeal the case. Local governments, which had used their authority granted by the regulations to issue pandemic-era restrictions such as mask mandates, want the right to defend them in court.

The local newscast from the KBIA newsroom in Columbia, Missouri

Bridgett Robbins is an Assistant teaching professor at the Sinclair School of Nursing, but before that she worked as a nurse in Mid-Missouri for more than 30 years.She spoke about how the past several years of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted – and continues to impact – her and those she works alongside.As a note - This piece discusses the pandemic, grief and death, and may be distressing to some listeners.

Effective immediately, MU Health Care announced today that it will be putting an end to its universal masking requirement within all MU Health care hospitals and clinics.

As part of the U-S governments efforts to help its citizens recover from COVID-19, the American Rescue Plan Act has issued $25.2 million for addressing public health and safety.