Covid-19 In St Louis

For the United States, pandemics are nothing new. With four influenza outbreaks tucked under our belts from the last 102 years, the COVID-19 situation isn’t an unfamiliar one. “[Although] nobody could have reasonably predicted that a particular coronavirus that looks just like this would be the cause of a pandemic, we have always been aware of the risk of and expecting the risk of a pan...

On the first day of each school year, hundreds of students rush into Clayton High School. Freshmen approach the front entrance timidly, desperately trying to remember the path to their first period class. More seasoned students park at Stuber or in the CTE parking lot and walk through the familiar halls of CHS. By this point in their high school careers, they have developed their favorite routes, with...

Businesses reopened, restaurants seating customers, and streets busy once again. At first glance, it would seem as if economic activity was “normal” again. Despite the reopening of the economy, no one is sure what the economic aftermath of COVID-19 will look like. After months of a locked down economy, states have shifted toward opening businesses back up for consumer activity. Missouri began...

Just like every aspect of society, upcoming elections in the St. Louis area will look very different this year. June 2 is the municipal election, pushed back from the originally-scheduled date of April 7, followed by the presidential primary in August and the General Election in November. Eric Fey, St. Louis County Democratic Director of Elections, explained that several precautionary measures will...

With the state of the COVID-19 pandemic, a strong collaboration between health and policy-making has been crucial in most effectively improving the health of the public. Public health law bridges the gap between these two fields and examines the government’s authority to improve the health of the public, which is critical in the operation of managing the current pandemic. Rob Gatter, Professor of...

The year of 2020 will be permanently memorialized for the COVID-19 pandemic, and in the shadows, the critical political response that determined the future of the pandemic’s path. Politics have been inextricably tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and proven a rigorous test to the strength of the current St. Louis local leadership. Both incumbents and challengers now have the unique opportunity to advocate...

There has been a prevailing narrative throughout this pandemic that COVID-19 doesn't discriminate. That everybody, from world leaders and celebrities to grocery store and factory workers, is affected. However, because of existing disparities, the effects on different communities vary greatly. Suffering changes depending on circumstance and background. Because of this, we are faced with this unconscionable...

As of April 29, a reported 32 prison inmates and 13 prison staff in Missouri have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections. As of April 30, six juveniles and two staff members at the St. Louis County Juvenile Detention Center have tested positive, as well as two employees at the St. Louis County Jail as of April 8. Tallies from the Marshall Project, a criminal justice journalism organization aiming to track the spread of within the prison sys...

With “My Body, My Choice!” and “Models are Wrong, Open MO!” signs in hand, around 60 individuals protesting Missouri’s stay-at-home order converged on downtown Clayton on April 21. Some gathered openly in groups, failing to remain six feet apart, while others drove in loops through deserted streets. Wydown Middle School Social Studies teacher, Mark Solomon was on a bike ride with his family...