[4][5] Two days later, on March 8, family members of the patient violated quarantine, leading Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School to close.
[13] Missouri Governor Mike Parson announced on March 18 that a 60-year-old woman in Boone County was the first coronavirus-related death in the state.
[15] On March 24, agents with the FBI shot and killed an armed man just before he could detonate a car bomb outside a hospital in Kansas City.
[16][17][18] The FBI's office in Missouri issued an alert stating Wilson "shared instructions on how to make an improvised explosive device with another ...
[21] The officer-involved shooting occurred days after the FBI's New York field office and the Department of Homeland Security issued alerts warning of the possibility of far-right extremists and others exploiting the pandemic to commit terrorist attacks.
The St. Louis County Department of Public Health issued a travel advisory for people to self-quarantine for 14 days if they had not observed social-distancing rules.
[28] On June 12, the Springfield-Greene County Health Department announced that none of the 140 customers and six coworkers that interacted with the hair stylists were infected.
[31] On July 20, a cluster of cases were reported among 19 students and two other people were infected with the virus after attending a graduation and prom at St. Dominic High School in O'Fallon.
[32] On July 21, Governor Parson in a radio interview with KFTK-FM said that children have to return to schools, that they would inevitably get COVID-19, and would "get over it".
[38] In July the mayor of Springfield, Missouri issued a statement urging vaccination to curb the surge of infections as the Delta variant spread through the state.
[39] 81% of people between 65 and 84 reported receiving at least one vaccine dose, but that figure dropped to 41% for the 25 to 34 year old age group.
[42] The hospital association issued a statement:[43] If the rest of the state follows current trajectories — with Delta systematically picking off localized pockets of unvaccinated Missourians — our entire health care system will be very near the brink it flirted with during the winter of 2020-2021.On March 30, 2022, Missouri Governor Mike Parson announced the Missouri will move on into the endemic phase for COVID-19.
[45] The National Park Service closed the Gateway Arch and the associated museum beginning March 18 until further notice.
[26] On April 22, Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court against the Chinese government.
[51] The lawsuit, considered the first of its kind, said, "Chinese authorities deceived the public, suppressed crucial information, arrested whistleblowers, denied human-to-human transmission in the face of mounting evidence, destroyed critical medical research, permitted millions of people to be exposed to the virus, and even hoarded personal protective equipment—thus causing a global pandemic that was unnecessary and preventable."
Most school districts in Kansas city had plans for online only instruction, except in Independence where teachers were told they had to resume teaching in-person classes or opt-out without pay.
[53] Governor Mike Parson has said the decisions on what format classes will follow, whether in person or online, will be made by school districts.
[55] State officials estimate that one out of five students don't have the broadband access needed for online learning.