COLUMBIA - Senator Roy Blunt visited Columbia on Wednesday for the first time since announcing that he wouldnât run for re-election next year.
Blunt held a roundtable discussion at the Walsworth Family Columns Club at Faurot Field with many health leaders from MU Health Care, Truman Veterans Hospital and the Board of Curators.
Blunt discussed COVID-19 vaccines, efforts to improve mental health and his work to combat the opioid crisis.
Blunt said he hopes everyone will get a vaccine when it becomes available to them.
âIâd encourage people who havenât gotten a vaccine to get one,â Blunt said.
6:45 p.m.: CPS 14-day case rate at 10
The Columbia Public Schools 14-day case rate per 10,000 people is at 10.
The updated CPS student tracker shows 15Â students in the district currently in quarantine and 3Â active student cases.
To break the student cases down:Â
Elementary schools: 8 quarantined, 1 positive cases, 5 out of 21 schools affected
Middle schools: 3 quarantined, 1 positive case, 3 out of 7 schools affected
High schools: 3 quarantined, 1 positive cases, 3 out of 4 schools affected
Other: 1 quarantined, 0 positive cases
The district has seen 2,724 quarantined student cases and 642 positive student cases since June 2020.Â
The updated CPS staff tracker also shows 2Â staff members currently in quarantine and 0Â active staff cases. One staff member is out due to EFMLA laws.
COLUMBIA - A CDC app called V-safe uses text messaging and web surveys to allow you to check-in after receiving your first shot and list any potential side effects.
You can fill out the app after your first shot, and will receive a reminder through it for your second shot.
MU Health Care s pharmacy director said while using the app is voluntary, the health system recommends people use it before leaving their first appointment. It s important that, as community members, that s [potential side effects] all submitted and aggregated at a national level to better identify any side effects that weren t identified in the clinical trials, Brad Myers said.
MU Health Care changed its coronavirus vaccine scheduling system Thursday in hopes of filling open vaccination appointment slots this weekend. It took only a few hours for the "hundreds" of openings to be filled.
University of Missouri looking to fill hundreds of vaccine appointments in Columbia this weekend
The MU health care system said anyone who is eligible under current Missouri rules can sign up through the system s website Author: Sam Clancy Updated: 3:19 PM CST March 4, 2021
COLUMBIA, Mo. MU Health Care has hundreds of vaccine appointment slots open this weekend for their clinics in Columbia, Missouri.
The health care system said anyone who is eligible under current Missouri rules can sign up through the system s website here. This opportunity is the result of successfully shrinking numbers of eligible unvaccinated individuals and an increasing supply of vaccine doses, a news release from the system said.