St. Louis County’s first mass vaccination site opens Wednesday

The County Department of Public Health says it received 3,900 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday from a local hospital partner, allowing it to open its mass vaccination site in Ferguson at St. Louis Community College’s Florissant Valley campus, which will be open for appointments starting Wednesday.. Vaccinations will also continue at the John…

The Latest: Fauci pushes need for global vaccination effort

WASHINGTON — The virus that causes COVID-19 could gain a permanent place in the population without global vaccination, warns the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. “We’ve got to get the whole world vaccinated,” Fauci told reporters Monday during the International AIDS Society’s COVID-19 conference. “If we don’t get a global effort,…