S T. LOUIS (AP) — The latest wave of COVID-19 in Missouri is causing citizens to struggle to get tested, but they are in a position to do so.
Emergency care centers, pharmacies, and other places that offer COVID-19 testing are struggling to keep up with demand. In the small town of Winfield in eastern Missouri, a sponsored state administered, until recently, about 50 tests a week.
But on Wednesday at 11 a. M. , an hour after the site opened, six hundred cars lined up, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, bringing comments made through Winfield police to the state fitness department. closed the site for security reasons.
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services spokeswoman Lisa Cox told the Post-Dispatch that the branch plans to load a new check in St. Louis this weekend, 3 s in St. Louis next week and 1-3 s in Kansas City.
Meanwhile, Republican Gov. Mike Parson announced Thursday that he will let the pandemic-related state of emergency expire on Friday. emergency. “
“Thanks to the effectiveness of the vaccine, widespread efforts to mitigate the virus, and our committed medical professionals, beyond wishes, the state of emergency is no longer present,” Parson said.
The state’s COVID-19 dashboard reported Thursday that another 2265 people were hospitalized for the virus, the number since August. Health experts across the state say the outbreak is far from over.
“We hope things get worse before we get better,” said Dr. Brown. Hilary Babcock, infectious disease specialist at the University of Washington at BJC HealthCare. “The number of cases is staggering and developing at a rate we’ve never noticed. before. “
In Springfield, CoxHealth had 66 COVID-19 cases hospitalized two days before Christmas. The hospital had 110 a week later, the Springfield News-Leader reported. A hospital examination found that 94. 6% of the other people hospitalized before this week were not vaccinated.
Kansas City has also been hit hard. The Kansas City Star reported that 1,809 new cases were recorded in the metropolitan area on Wednesday alone, and cases are generally included in Kansas City and its suburbs in Missouri and Kansas.