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Mid-Missouri’s coronavirus case increases continue to stay low.
Boone County reported nine new positives on Thursday. Active cases dropped to 90. Hospitalizations are up, to 12, but stay below capacity.
Cole County added four new positive cases on Thursday.
More from The Associated Press:
Missouri has reported just 14 breakthrough COVID-19 cases among people who are fully vaccinated to federal health officials, even though dozens more have been detected in just the state’s largest county. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked states at the start of this month to instruct local health departments and health systems to collect real-time information on “breakthrough infections.” States are to collect the data and enter it into a national database. But by mid April, when the CDC announced its first tally of breakthrough infections, it caught a disease investigator for the St. Louis County Department of Public Health by surprise.
