Veteran’s Homes/COVID Update
July 29, 2021 7:45AM CDT
(Cape Girardeau) More than 90-percent of Missouri’s veterans home residents have received their COVID-19 vaccination.
Missouri Veterans Commission Executive Director Paul Kirchoff says about 60-percent of workers have been vaccinated.
Kirchoff says nine workers and one veteran currently have the virus.
Last year, Missouri veterans homes had a deadly outbreak of the virus, killing at least 158 residents among the seven state-operated homes.
Kirchoff says vaccinations, testing, and other infection control measures have helped to keep the virus from spreading this year.