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They’re getting vaccinated, even boosted, because they care about their grandparents and parents. But some young adults say the pandemic has interrupted their school, work and social life too much already and they need to get back to living their lives.

Children's Mercy Hospital says the supplier of a re-agent needed for its PCR testing did not send its shipment this week. As a result, the hospital will suspend COVID testing at emergency departments and urgent care facilities.

Peter Carnesciali, a software engineering manager, created a bot service that finds COVID-19 testing appointments at local pharmacies. The bot service initially found vaccination appointments, but has changed its focus in the wake of the latest surge in cases.

In January, high school students walked out of their Columbia, Missouri, classrooms to pressure their school board to reinstate a mask mandate. With COVID prevention policies expiring statewide, their experience — and a whole history of student-led walkouts — might prove instructive.

The school mask requirement was set to expire on Thursday.

For two weeks before Missouri's state of emergency expired, health care organizations urged Gov. Mike Parson to extend it or give them enough notice it was ending to make accommodations. He did neither.

Children between 5 and 11 have been eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine for nearly three months, but only about 13% of children in that age group in Missouri are fully vaccinated.

The Biden administration announced Friday that Americans can begin ordering free at-home COVID-19 tests starting Jan. 19. Orders can be placed using the website COVIDtests.gov.

At Madison Medical Center in Fredericktown, Missouri, staff used gear purchased from Walmart to save the life of a woman with severe pneumonia, when they couldn't find an ICU bed at a larger hospital.

Students and faculty headed back to class last week at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, one of few public colleges in the state without a mask mandate.