Shift in state plan funnels more vaccines to Missouri hospitals

Until the last week of January, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranked Missouri last in the percentage of residents — 3.9 percent — who had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccination.

The Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services (DHSS) announced Monday that it was revising the state’s distribution plan to get more doses to select hospitals with the capacity to inoculate at least 5,000 people a week.