Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services

An app created over the course of a long weekend has already connected some Kansas City residents with needed vaccines.

Nearly a third of Missouri residents have traveled outside of their home counties to get vaccine shots.

Many Kansas City residents have made hours-long road trips to get COVID-19 vaccines when none were offered locally.

Researchers also found evidence of a mutation that helps the virus evade the immune system.

Some local health officials warned that opening eligibility could result in some already-eligible people who have not received shots being left further behind.

Hours after Kansas City loosened restrictions on business, Missouri's health department announced it had found evidence that a highly transmissible COVID-19 variant has been spreading throughout the state.

The state health department has provided few specifics on where the more dangerous COVID-19 variant may be spreading.

Antigen tests now comprise about a third of COVID-19 tests conducted in Missouri but their results are not included in case counts.

Black and Latino residents are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. But Missouri’s plan punted creating a proposal “to assure equity is achieved” to regional teams, half of which haven’t started work.

Only about a quarter of COVID-19 vaccines supplied to pharmacies for nursing home vaccinations in Missouri have been used.

At Missouri's current pace, the state won’t fully vaccinate its population for years.

States will not receive large increases in COVID-19 vaccine doses that some had expected.