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Cole County won t conduct door-to-door vaccination efforts
Cole County commissioners agreed Tuesday not to conduct face-to-face canvassing about the COVID-19 vaccine.
by Michael Shine
Jul. 20 2021 @ 11:05pm
Annaliese Schroeder, left, a community health advocate, and Kelsey Conner, a public health information specialist, canvass a north Springfield, Mo., neighborhood Thursday, July 15, 2021, for the Springfield-Greene County Health Department in the hopes of boosting COVID-19 vaccinations. With the delta variant causing a surge of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in southwestern Missouri, health officials have taken to going door-to-door in an effort to encourage vaccinations. (Jill Toyoshiba /The Kansas City Star via AP)
Health experts recommend COVID-19 mitigation strategies should return ahead of school year at the Jefferson City Council
JC City Council Meeting July 19
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
The Jefferson City Council met Monday to give a pandemic update on where to get vaccinated and where to get tested as COVID-19 numbers across the county and state continue to trend upward.
Dr. Thomas Robbins with the Jefferson City Medical Group said during the meeting, We urge everybody to consider what we talked about in the past with social distancing and mask-wearing.
The Cole County Health Department added 228 cases today. Of those, 56 were cases from June, 36 occurred from July 1 to July 6 and 48 were breakthrough infections. Since March 1, there have been 159 total breakthrough infections in the county.