Local News 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)