vaccine

Meghan Kruse is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Columbia Public School’s Scholar Clinic, a school-based clinic that serves students enrolled in CPS. She spoke about childhood vaccinations through their clinic, and about the power of having a conversation with concerned parents.

As levels of the coronavirus have increased in Missouri and across the country, the federal government has approved updated vaccines to protect against COVID-19. The virus itself has changed, and along with it, guidelines for how to keep others safe.

Updated COVID-19 boosters are going to become available this month.

Researchers at the University of Missouri say they’ve created a new vaccine to protect cattle from bovine anaplasmosis. The disease is estimated to cost U.S. ranchers millions each year.

Since 2017, the percentage of Missouri's kindergarten-age children who have received the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine has dropped from 95% to around 90%, according to state health officials.

The clinic will be held at Daniel Boone Regional Library on Thursday.

In 2022, RSV antigen detection in Missouri spiked between late October and early November, according to CDC data.

The vaccine clinics will be held throughout Oct. 24- Oct. 26.

Doses of an updated 2023-2024 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are available now.

The updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine is now available at Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services.