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By Editor | December 30, 2020
From Staff Reports
The county health department received all 200 ordered doses, according to new director Jennifer Mueller.
Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital (SGCMH) gave out doses to 10 employees as a “trial run,” in Mueller’s words. She said it went smoothly.
Phase 1-A will see long-term care facility residents and medical personnel who deal with patients receive the
vaccine. In Phase 1-B, high-risk individuals ages 18-64 and everyone 65 and older will qualify for shots, along with other “essential workers.” That category will include water/wastewater workers, energy workers, childcare workers, teachers and education staff, critical manufacturing workers and food and agriculture workers.
Baby Bust, Not Boom, Likely After COVID-19 Pandemic
On 12/30/20 at 12:32 PM EST
Economic uncertainty created by the COVID19 pandemic is likely to lead to a baby bust next year, two researchers believe. They report that the number of U.S. births in 2021 could decline by 300,000 to 500,000. We base this expectation on lessons drawn from economic studies of fertility behavior, along with data presented here from the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and the 1918 Spanish Flu, Melissa Kearney, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, and Philip Levine, a professor of economics at Wellesley College, said in a research report.
By Editor | December 30, 2020
By Mark Evans
mevans@stegenherald.com
Blindsiding America and the world, the novel coronavirus called COVID-19 became a focus of local attention at the beginning of March.
Sandra Bell, executive director of the Ste. Genevieve County Health Department, began updating the County Commission twice a week on the situation and addressed the Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen meetings regularly.
She first met with them on March 2 and reported that Missouri had just reported its first case. There were 164 cases nationally, although that figure had doubled in one day. Bell noted that figures “change almost hourly.”
COVID-19 test kits were ordered and the battle against the virus began.
By Editor | December 30, 2020
By MARK EVANS
mevans@stegenherald.com
Discussion of the Caronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act took up much of the Ste. Genevieve County Commission’s abbreviated Dec. 23 meeting.
The commission met for about two hours that Wednesday, since the courthouse was closed on Christmas Eve.
The commission was feeling the stress of not knowing how things would play out in Washington, D.C. between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
The $2,099,323 in CARES Act money the county received came with some strings attached. One notable string was that it must be spent by Dec. 31 or returned.