Stories from Friday, April 24, 2020


In a unified effort to share information and empower Missourians to stop the spread of COVID-19, the One for All Missouri public health campaign launched statewide today. A collaborative partnership led by Missouri Center for Public Health Excellence (MOCPHE) and powered by Missouri Foundation for Health, One for All Missouri provides Missourians with clear, consistent and actionable information about COVID-19 they can use and share with others...

A Newton County resident who died at Mercy Hospital in Cassville after suffering a cardiac event is being counted as a COVID-19 death following a positive result for the virus postmortem. Larry Bergner, Newton County Health Department administrator, said the individual was in Barry County and taken to Mercy Hospital for a cardiac event, pronounced dead in the emergency room, then later testing positive in Kansas City as the person was being prepared for organ donation...