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St. Luke's Hospital announces new visitor restrictions due to COVID surge
Beginning Wednesday, patients will be allowed one visitor per day in most circumstances.
CDC mulling COVID test requirement for asymptomatic, Fauci says
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the COVID-19 Omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal health officials are looking to add a negative test along with its five-day isolation restrictions …
St. Louis area hospitals report record number of COVID hospitalizations, children hospitalized with COVID
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St. Louis Breaks Previous COVID-19 Hospitalization Records
Fifty-four children and 964 adults have been hospitalized with COVID-19 – numbers the St. Louis area has not seen before, the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force reported today.
Figures are reported from the area’s four major hospitals: BJC Healthcare, St. Luke’s Hospital, Mercy and SSM Health.…
These Metro East schools are going back to virtual learning amid Covid surge
When some students in Edwardsville and Belleville schools head back to class after the winter break on Tuesday, they’ll be doing so virtually and from home.
Belleville confirmed with KSDK Monday afternoon that Belleville Township High School District 201 students will move to remote learning Tuesday-Friday of this week. The plan will be reevaluated over the weekend.
School district officials said they had to make the change because of too many staffing and teacher absences.
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Team USA women's hockey boasts trio of St. Louis connections
Margaret Hermes’ new novel was inspired by backpacking Europe — and 4 decades of gestation
"The Opposite of Chance" was published 39 years after author Margaret Hermes wrote its first chapters. She explains what took so long, how she overcame the story's complications, and how intense research allowed her to bring characters far different from herself to life.
Red Cross responds to disasters, sounds alarm on ‘dangerously low’ blood supply
The need for blood is on the rise, but the Red Cross is seeing fewer first-time donors — and is down to about one day’s worth of reserves. Joe Zydlo digs into what’s causing the shortfall, and how it plays into the organization’s recent response to tornadoes in Missouri and Arkansas.
Top Missouri leaders to be deposed in federal lawsuit over lack of Capitol mask mandate
The legal action stems from the termination of a House administrative staffer in 2021.
Federal judge blocks vaccine mandate for Head Start workers in 24 states, including Missouri
A Louisiana federal judge has put a hold on President Joe Biden’s mandate that Head Start workers be vaccinated against COVID-19. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, who previously ruled against a vaccine mandate for health care workers, issued a preliminary injunction on New Year’s Day restricting the executive branch from enforcing in 24 states a mandate for […]
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Lawmakers return to Jeff City this week. Here’s what to watch
The Legislature will move fast on new boundaries for Missouri's eight congressional districts.
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