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Boone County officials to give third vaccine doses to at-risk patients

Boone County will start giving out third doses of the coronavirus shot to some patients soon.

Health officials said Tuesday they will start with people who are at risk or have weakened immune systems for now. The general public is not eligible to receive a third booster shot yet.

Boone County added another COVID-19 death Tuesday, for a total of 130. Health officials said the patient was older than 80, and died on July 31. Boone also reported 40 new coronavirus positives Tuesday. Active cases rose slightly, to 638. Hospitalizations went down, to 127. Hospitals in Boone are still operating at “yellow” status, meaning resources are strained and some surgeries are being delayed.

Cole County officials said Tuesday there were seven more COVID-19 deaths in July, for a total of 135. There were 28 new coronavirus cases added in the county Tuesday.

More from the Associated Press:

The summer surge of COVID-19 is causing a spike in deaths in Missouri. The state health department says of 124 deaths reported Tuesday, 86 were discovered in the department’s weekly examination of death certificates from across the state. One of those deaths was in June, 52 in July and 33 earlier this month. But 38 of the deaths were new, an unusually high one-day total. According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Missouri ranks fourth in per capita deaths over seven days, and that was before the 124 additional deaths were announced.

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