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Masking-up at Truman state. The University mask policy will continue until the end of the fall semester. They will take a look at the mask policy again before the start of the spring semester. As of now, 57% of all Truman students are fully vaccinated, while 63% of dorm students are fully vaccinated and among the staff, 72% of all employees have been vaccinated.

The Adair County health dept says covid cases are going up. Nine new cases confirmed in the county
yesterday — meaning 38 active cases right now…the highest since Oct. 8th.

The nine newly confirmed cases involve females ages 3, 70 and 84, and males ages 7, 17, 24, 25, 61 and 62. Two cases are in the K-12 schools, one is in local universities, and three are breakthrough infections in people who are vaxxed.

From Oct. 30 through Nov. 5, 69% of the cases are in people 30 and younger, 52% were females and 48% were males. One-third were in the K-12 schools. Adair County is in the substantial category when it comes to transmission of COVID-19.

Covid-count in Adair County: Seven new cases reported Tuesday. That brings the total of active cases at the moment to 30. The youngest to get the virus in this latest group — a 3 month old boy — as well as a 2 year old boy and a 7 year old boy. The oldest with the virus, an 80 year old man. Since the pandemic started, there’s been 3,683 cases in the county, and nearly all recovered.

The Adair County Health Department recommends that all county residents ages 12 and older get vaccinated against COVID-19 and the Delta variant. Though two of the current cases involve people who got the virus even fully vaccinated.

Would you like to be a substitute teacher? There’s a shortage of them, and many people think you have to be a trained teacher to be a fill-in.

But you don’t. Next Monday, Truman State is having a workshop to help people learn how to become a substitute. The Department of Education will host the workshop at 7 p.m. Nov. 15 in Violette Hall 1000, and it will also be on Zoom. Those in attendance, the school says, will find out more about the critical need for substitute teachers and get hands-on assistance with the application process.

Missouri Lottery out with a press release to say that players won more than $84 million in the month of October.

In addition, with people shelling out money for tickets, Missiouri’s education fund got $32 million from all the people who hoped to win last month…but didn’t.

The Lotto Draw game has been going for 35 years. With players winning $790 million dollars.

But studies have shown your chances of dating a supermodel are 500 times better than your chances of becoming a lottery winner. Meaning plenty of people play…but few win

Three new cases of covid-19 reported in Sullivan county. So six cases active in the county at the moment. Only 38% of sullivan county residents are fully vaccinated.

Missouri is one of 11 states suing to stop the President’s order that requires many American businesses to force the vaccine on workers. Employees who refuse have to get tested weekly.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt says the federal government should not be forcing private employers to require their employees to get vaccinated or foot the cost of weekly testing.

A federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily stopped the order from going into effect saying it appears to have constitutional problems.

On Friday, the Adair County Health Department reported three more cases of covid 19 among young people. A 16-year-old female, a 4-year-old boy, and a 9-year-old boy with the virus. So the county has 33 active cases at the moment.

More than 116,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine for youngsters ages 5-11 have been distributed across the state and plans are being made to get more doses. You can find out which doctor’s offices have the pediatric shots later this week on the website: vaccines.gov. You can also text your ZIP code to 438-829 to find out where to get the vaccine.

A woman accused of causing a wreck in Illinois — that killed three young boys from Kirksville and their grandmother — may use an insanity defense according to a Quincy television station. Natasha McBride is charged with murder. The wreck killed three members of the Corrick family who were visiting relatives when it happened. Six year old Dakota Corrick, 4 year old Archer Corrick and one year old Ransom all died and their grandmother was also killed.

Adair county reports another death from covid-19, bringing the death toll since the pandemic started to 35.

A 66 year old woman passed away at the end of October from the viru. Meantime, six new cases reported yesterday…with 33 active cases of the virus at the moment