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Adair County Health Department Releases December COVID-19 Vaccine Schedule
Kirksville, MO 11/22/22 – The Adair County Health Department continues to administer COVID-19 vaccines and bivalent boosters for residents ages 12 and older as long as vaccine supplies last. December vaccine clinic are scheduled from 2-4 p.m., December 1, 6, 13, 20 and 27 at the Health Department, 1001 South Jamison Street in Kirksville. To…
Free Drive-Through Testing for Four Viruses
Kirksville, MO 11/7/22 – The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has teamed up with Dynamic DNA Laboratories to offer free testing in Kirksville for four prevalent illnesses. With a single nasal swab, people throughout northeast Missouri can be tested for Influenza A, Influenza B, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), and COVID-19. The testing…
Reported Cases of COVID-19 in Adair County Continue Downward Trend
Kirksville, MO 11/2/22 – The number of COVID-19 cases reported to the Adair County Health Department during the seven-day period, October 25-31, fell for the second week, from 27 to 24. Although the decrease is not as great as the 10-case decline for the prior period, the trend is moving in the right direction. The…
Weekly COVID Statistics
Please note the Y axis is a scale of positive cases reported to the Health Department for the past week ending Nov 1, 2022. Positive Home Covid-19 tests are included in this data if they are reported to us. Home tests are available at the Health Department. Call 660-665-8491. Northeast Regional Medical Center is reporting…
Adair County Residents Encouraged to Get Vaccinated as Flu and COVID-19 Cases Rise
Kirksville, MO 10/19/22 – The number of COVID-19 cases reported to the Adair County Health Department during the previous seven-day period, October 11-17, rose from 34 to 37. The rising COVID-19 reported case count comes as cases of the seasonal flu are also increasing. Jim Lebaron, Adair County Health Department administrator, encourages residents to get their…
Reported COVID-19 Cases Fall Then Rise as Temperatures Drop
Kirksville, MO 10/17/22 – The number of cases of COVID-19 reported to the Adair County Health Department during the previous two seven-day periods fell, then rose as temperatures outside started falling. For the period from September 27 through October 3, cases fell from 22 to 12, followed by a rise to 34 during the period from…
Reported COVID-19 Cases Drop as Health Department Gears up for Drive-Through Flu Vaccine Event
Kirksville, MO 9/30/22 – The number of cases of COVID-19 reported to the Adair County Health Department over the seven-day period ending September 26 dropped to 22 from 69 cases reported during the previous period. The decline occurs as the Health Department gears up for its annual drive-through flu vaccine event scheduled for Wednesday, October 5,…
Reported COVID-19 Cases Rise to 69 in Adair County
Kirksville, MO 9/21/22 – The number of cases of COVID-19 reported to the Adair County Health Department over the seven-day period ending September 20 rose sharply to 69 from the 48 cases reported during the previous period. The highly transmissible Omicron strains continue to drive case numbers upward as students return to schools and as people…
Bivalent COVID-19 Booster Drive-Through Scheduled as Cases Rise
Kirksville, MO 9/14/22 – The Adair County Health Department now has a limited supply of the recently approved bivalent Pfizer COVID-19 booster doses which will be administered by appointment, on September 20, 2022. The boosters become available as the seven-day total cases reported to the Health Department rose from 36 to 48 for the period…
ADAIR COUNTY WILL SOON HAVE BIVALENT COVID-19 BOOSTER DOSES AVAILABLE
Kirksville, MO 9/7/22 – The Adair County Health Department will soon be offering the bivalent COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech booster. The Pfizer and Moderna bivalent formulas recently received approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and are now recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as protection against COVID-19. The previous two-dose series and…
