News Staff Keeping up with covid.
78 new cases Friday in Adair county as the virus continues to spread. Twenty of the new cases…or 25%…were people who were vaccinated.
Among the new cases…kids ranging in age from 2 to 7.
There is an adult vaccination clinic scheduled for Tuesday the 25th in Adair county. Call the health department to reserve a spot for the shot.
A new state office to deal with flooding — that’s what Governor Parson is proposing. He wants to spend just over 10-million dollars to create an agency that would help the state prepare for floods and drought.
It would be called the Missouri Hydrology Information Center. State officials say it is an idea that came up after those floods in 2019 in the Missouri and Mississippi river basins. Those floods resulted in about about $20 billion damage.
In Adair county, an 80 year old man has died with covid. That brings the total number of deaths in the county from the virus to 49. And there were 47 new cases reported on Thursday.
Covid numbers from Macon county: in the week that ended Janurary 18th, the county reports 255 cases of the virus.
That’s about a hundred more than the previous week. Of those 255, only 88 were vaccinated and 32 caught covid for the second time.
Next Thursday the Macon county health department will have a vaccine clinic where you can get any of the brands; Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson. Clinic runs from 1-to-6. Call for an appointment.
Kirksville police closing out last year’s statistics. There were 23,562 calls that required an officer to respond last year. 9,000 criminal offenses were reported and 708 arrests were made.
A St. Louis woman pleaded guilty to ordering fake COVID vaccination cards from China; nearly a thousand of them.
It is not clear if 23 year old Morgan Webb was planning to sell the vax cards. She pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Her sentencing is in three months, and it is expected that attorneys will recommend that she get probation.
Covid cases continue to go up in Adair county. The health department confirmed 102 new cases on Wednesday. The youngest in the latest covid-count: a one month old boy. Also among Wednesday’s cases, 16 are in the
K-12 schools and 11 are in universities.
About a third of the new cases are in people who have been vaccinated.
There is a pediatric covid-vaccine clinic today (Thursday) at the health department. The next vaccine clinic for adults is next Tuesday.
As of yesterday, 55% of Missouri’s total population is fully vaccinated.
The Macon county health department has a Pfizer vaccine clinic today. You can get a first dose, second dose, or booster. You must call for an appointment: 660-395-4711. You can also make an appointment to the get Moderna vaccine on Thursday.
The Sullivan County Health Department reports 51 new cases yesterday of Covid. So there are 70 cases active at the moment in the county.
A Missouri man who served more than 40 years for a crime he did not commit, is now suing the company that provides medical care to prisoners.
Kevin Strickland says the care provided by Corizon LLC left him dependent on a wheelchair and he can no longer stand very long at a time. He says Corizon employees and prison workers repeatedly denied his requests to be treated for spinal issues.
The Macon County Health Department will have vacccine clinics this week and next week.
A Pfizer vaccine clinic is this Wednesday, January 19, and a Moderna vaccine clinic is this Thursday, January 20.
In addition — a week from Thursday, the 27th — the Macon Health Department will have all three vaccines available from 1 to 6. That’s the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson shots.
In Moberly, a 68-year-old man was hit and killed by a car that was backing out of a private parking lot. Name of the pedestrian not yet given. It happened on Easter Outer road on Saturday afternoon. A 27 year old man was the driver, his name not given. No charges filed.