A city-appointed board convened Tuesday to oversee future collections and spending of a special 1-cent sales tax that will go to pay for a parking lot for the coming B&B
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Joplin s COVID-19 status is improving and the number of people in hospitals because of the virus is dropping, the City Council was told Monday night.
Dan Pekarek, assistant city manager and former city health department director, said the the city s seven-day average of cases per day is hovering in the low 30s. That is down from 52 around the time the council reinstated a mask mandate Nov. 19. We re happy it dropped that much, he said. It kind of stabilized in the low 30s, and that is one of the metrics health authorities are watching.
The 14-day number of cases per 100,000 people has dropped below 1,000. We are happy about that, Pekarek said. We are down to 924 case rate per 100,000. Again, that s good news. We d like to keep it below 1,000.
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Joplin s COVID-19 status is improving and the number of people in hospitals because of the virus is dropping, the City Council was told Monday night.
Dan Pekarek, assistant city manager and former city health department director, said the the city s seven-day average of cases per day is hovering in the low 30s. That is down from 52 around the time the council reinstated a mask mandate Nov. 19. We re happy it dropped that much, he said. It kind of stabilized in the low 30s, and that is one of the metrics health authorities are watching.
The 14-day number of cases per 100,000 people has dropped below 1,000. We are happy about that, Pekarek said. We are down to 924 case rate per 100,000. Again, that s good news. We d like to keep it below 1,000.
There s grim truth and good news about the pandemic.
Four more COVID-19 deaths of Joplin residents were announced by the city this week, raising the death toll in the city to 76.
The number of Joplin dead in World War I was 77 â meaning we are knocking on that door. That was over a period of 27 months too; the city s first COVID-19 deaths were reported in late June, less than six months ago.
We were reminded of the famous World War I poster by James Montgomery Flagg calling on all Americans to do their part.
It also was disheartening to see Neosho dismiss, without even a motion for a second, ordinances establishing mandatory mask wearing and occupancy limits.
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