Health officials in Linn and Livingston counties are urging precautions to slow the spread, though they're not certain residents will follow that guidance.
Two neighboring counties in rural northern Missouri are seeing big increases in COVID-19 cases, spikes blamed in part on new variants of the virus, and in part on the behavior of residents.
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