1,600 COVID-19 vaccine appointments available Thursday across St. Louis County stltoday.com/lifestyles/hea… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As the region’s vaccination effort goes small, residents in some St. Louis neighborhoods still left behind Robert Cohen Josh Renaud | @kirkman.bsky.social stltoday.com/lifestyles/hea… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis, St. Louis County to reinstate mask mandate stltoday.com/lifestyles/hea… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri reports thousands of previously unreleased COVID-19 deaths, infections stltoday.com/lifestyles/hea… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch Annika Merrilees

St. Louis COVID-19 patient numbers on the rise, pandemic task force warns stltoday.com/lifestyles/hea… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch Annika Merrilees

St. Louis area sees record COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations story by Annika Merrilees & Nassim Benchaabane stltoday.com/news/local/gov… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

During crush of COVID cases, St. Louis struggles to reach residents who test positive stltoday.com/lifestyles/hea… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch Annika Merrilees

Cora Faith Walker, a top St. Louis County official and former state lawmaker, dies at 37 stltoday.com/news/local/gov… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The latest on the office space front: SSM Health seeks new headquarters as St. Louis companies weigh office needs stltoday.com/business/local… via St. Louis Business

New from ⁦Annika Merrilees⁩ and me: stltoday.com/business/local…

After hospital stabbing, SSM DePaul nurses say they’ve long called for better security buff.ly/3cbHUtN by Dana Rieck & Annika Merrilees

New from Dana Rieck: Nurses pack courtroom as judge denies bond for SSM DePaul stabbing suspect stltoday.com/news/local/cri… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Another busy day of flood coverage with Annika Merrilees and David Carson: stltoday.com/news/local/met…

Big news from Annika Merrilees: More than 2,000 St. Louis Boeing workers won't be striking after all stltoday.com/business/local… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A shift in strategy is prompting Centene $CNC to dump nearly 1M square feet of office space in the St. Louis region - an insane amount of #CRE for the #STL market to absorb My latest w/ Annika Merrilees: stltoday.com/business/local…

Great story on a potential solution to boost rural health care: "We’re not here to replace or duplicate home health. The overarching goal is to fill gaps, not to replace current care.” ✍️ Annika Merrilees stltoday.com/business/local…

Emerson to stay in St. Louis region stltoday.com/business/local… via St. Louis Business

ICYMI, DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton, Mo. will no longer be a Level II trauma center. The story has been updated with a few new details about a state regulation that will help determine what happens next. stltoday.com/news/local/bus… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

--> Boeing wants to build a new aerospace program in St. Louis County, add 500 jobs It would be one of the biggest defense projects in the #STL region's history via Annika Merrilees & Kelsey Landis stltoday.com/news/local/bus…

Some personal news: Today is my last day at the Post-Dispatch. Reporting for St. Louis Post-Dispatch over the past five years has been an adventure and an honor, and St. Louis has been a wonderful home. Next, I’ll be heading back to northern California to cover business for The Sacramento Bee .