MU Health Care increases COVID-19 vaccination requirement

MU Health Care says it’s increasing it’s COVID vaccination standard. 

Omicron is increasingly affecting the organization’s 25 county service area.

The university’s health system is adding the booster shot to its existing COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

It affects all employees, students and providers who work, learn or practice medicine at MU Health Care or MU School of Medicine facilities.

There is an exception for medical or religious reasons.  

More than 37-hundred COVID patients are in Missouri hospitals.

The new case number for the rolling seven-day period has increased to just shy of 62-thousand.

At least 32 people have died of COVID-19 over the last week. 

Over the last seven days nearly 62-thousand vaccinations were given.