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UPDATED: Which Missouri cities and counties have COVID-19 mask mandates?
Austin Huguelet, Springfield News-Leader
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Schweitzer Brentwood Branch Library employee Chris Drew works while wearing a mask on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020.
At the beginning of November, mask mandates were mostly a city thing in Missouri.
St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia enacted them over the summer and so did some of their suburbs, but most other communities left it up to personal choice.
As Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, declined to impose a statewide rule again and again, it looked like things would stay that way.
But as Missouri recorded its worst month of the pandemic yet in November, hospitals cried out for help and converted enough cities and counties to nearly double the number of mask orders on the books. ....

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