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When you think of getting a COVID-19 test, often a drive-thru site is the first image that comes to mind. But that’s only the first step. Up several floors inside a lab at Mizzou North, the rest of the work happens.

Health care workers in mid-Missouri have received the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. However, as most people wait for their turn to be vaccinated, leaders say simple measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 remain as important as ever.

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University of Missouri Health Care has vaccinated its first frontline health care workers with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

University of Missouri Health Care received its first COVID-19 vaccine shipment on Tuesday evening.

In a darkened room full of desks and computers, a member of the transfer team takes calls from hospitals and clinics across the region. Callers are looking to transfer patients to MU Health Care for specialty services or a higher level of care than they can provide at a community hospital. Then, it’s up to the bed placement team to find an available bed in the appropriate unit.

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The University of Missouri School of Medicine is offering a resource to help inform school leaders during the pandemic. Through the COVID-19 and Kids ECHO, school nurses, superintendents and school board members from around the state are linked via videoconference with pediatric health experts at MU Health Care and other hospitals.

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