In-person learning is the ideal setting for our children. Vaccinating our educators is a key step to returning to a traditional classroom setting.

A fumbled vaccine rollout added frustration to our progress. Conversations on vaccine equity should have happened before any distribution plan was executed. Seeing our residents drive hours to snag an appointment is no way to provide a service critical to ending the pandemic.

It took a clarion call from urban areas like ours. Public health leaders. Community activists. The media. All in unison stating the obvious: Get the shots to where the need is greatest. That is our commitment in St. Louis County.

Thanks to ⁦@StLCountyDOH⁩ for all your work this past year. Decades of underfunding public health agencies across the country created a challenge but you showed the path forward and ⁦@SaintLouCo⁩ is in a much better place as a result. stltoday.com/news/local/metr…

The cautious reopening of @SaintLouCo is made possible because so many of our residents have worn masks, limited gatherings, stayed home as much as possible and respected the space of others. The more we continue to do that, the safer we will all be. stltoday.com/lifestyles/heal…

Next week we plan to launch a vaccination program for our homebound residents. We have been working with community partner agencies to help identify those we need to reach. For more information or to see if you qualify, email [email protected] or call 314-615-2660.