Shahla Farzan
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While some antibodies remained effective, researchers found it often took more of them to quash the new variants compared to the original virus. The results, along with a growing body of research worldwide, suggest COVID-19 vaccines and treatments may need to be updated in the future.
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The daily flow of workers needed to keep Missouri prisons running has made it nearly impossible to prevent the virus from entering facilities. State health officials hope to reduce this risk by first vaccinating prison staff, but the majority of inmates will be among the last in the state to be offered a vaccine.
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Employers Can Require Workers To Get Vaccinated, But Wash U Labor Law Expert Says To 'Tread CarefullThe U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released federal guidance last month, confirming that employers can require staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Mary Walsh and Beverly Nance sued Sunset Hills-based Friendship Village in 2018, after the faith-based retirement community rejected their housing application based on its "cohabitation policy," which defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
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At least 13.6 million Americans have caught the coronavirus this year — more people than the entire populations of Michigan and Iowa combined. But the situation likely will get much worse this winter, based on new research from Washington University.
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Gun-related suicides among young adults in Missouri had been declining since at least 1999, according to a new analysis from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. But after the state eliminated its permit-to-purchase requirement in 2007, firearm suicide rates among adults ages 19 to 24 jumped by nearly 22%.
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With thousands of new coronavirus cases being diagnosed each day and patients crowding into hospitals, some intensive care units in Missouri are nearly full. But health care workers say the worst is yet to come, and they warn more lives will be lost without a coordinated statewide response.
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Unexplained eye infections among COVID-19 patients have led some doctors to wonder if the coronavirus is multiplying within the eye itself. A team of researchers at Washington University reports the cornea appears to be resistant to the virus but cautions that other eye tissues may be susceptible.
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Missouri inmates and criminal justice advocates insist that moving prisoners during a pandemic is risky and likely led to an increasing number of coronavirus cases this summer. But corrections officials say they’ve implemented new policies, including testing, to safely transfer people between facilities.
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Public records obtained by researchers at Virginia Tech show the city of Quincy changed its water treatment processes in the months leading up to the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak, which may have allowed Legionella bacteria to multiply throughout the water system.