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Voting by Mail-in and Absentee Ballots
Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann speaks with Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon about the upcoming general elections, being a poll worker, and the difference between mail-in...
COVID in a College Town
Dr. Elizabeth Allemann discusses the public health challenges our community faces as students return to town. She also shares her open letter to Boone County decision ...
Mask Efficacy and Virus Transmission
Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann and guest Sarah Davis discuss recent studies about mask efficacy and virus transmission via respiratory droplets. Sarah Davis is a local pu...
COVID-19 and the Missouri State Budget
Host Ginny Chadwick and Representative Kip Kendrick of the Missouri State House 45th District discuss how COVID-19 and other policies have affected the Missouri state ...
Outdoor Education
Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Tori Kassabaum, Director of School Affairs at City Garden School in Columbia, to discuss outdoor education and how moving scho...
A Conversation with Ashley Millham of Boone County's Department of Public Health
Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Ashley Millham MD, Family Physician and Medical Director of the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Se...
Research Recap: Transmission Among Children
Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Sarah Davis, CPM, MPH, long-time home birth midwife and mother of school-aged children, to discuss the latest research on tran...
Matthew Holloway on Collecting COVID data in Missouri
Host Ginny Chadwick is joined by Matthew Holloway to discuss his work tracking coronavirus data in each of Missouri's 114 counties.
Doctors Seeing Fewer Premature Births
Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Dr. Tim O’Connor, Director of Newborn Intensive Care at Boone Hospital Center, to discuss the surprising decrease in premature birt...
COVID News Roundup
Dr. Elizabeth Allemann discusses how students with positive test results will be tracked by Mizzou and the local public health department. She also covers a new study ...
Reopening Schools: Examples from Around the World & Data on Transmission Among Children
As the first day of classes inches closer and closer, host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann discusses unanswered questions swirling though the minds of parents, teachers, and pu...
COVID Fatigue
Host Ginny Chadwick discusses the topic of COVID fatigue. How do we stay grounded in the reality of the pandemic, while also caring for our entire well-being, especial...
2020 Census Information for Mid-Missouri
Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Sara Humm, Public Communications Specialist at the Columbia City Managers Office, to discuss how the 2020 census has been affe...
Barriers to Testing for "Close Contacts" of COVID cases in Boone County
Host Dr. Elizabeth Allemann explains a change in testing access announced over the weekend from the Boone County Department of Health and Human Services. They will no ...
Absentee & Mail-In Voting for August 4th Primary Elections
Dr. Elizabeth Allemann is joined by Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon to discuss voting options for the August 4th elections.
An Update on Vaccine Development
Dr. Elizabeth Allemann sheds light on the process for developing vaccines, how different types of vaccines work in the body, and what access might look like when a cor...
Quarantine vs. Isolation vs. Social Distancing
Dr. Elizabeth Allemann outlines the process of quarantine, including when to get tested and what to do upon receiving test results. While COVID cases rise around the c...
Making Masks
Public health advocate Ginny Chadwick discusses all-things-masks with Anne Marie Long, local mask maker, licensed massage therapist, and owner & artist of Antics Crafts.
COVID in Boone County
Dr. Elizabeth Allemann takes a closer look at the local COVID numbers for active cases, deaths, individuals in quarantine, hospitalizations, number of tests administer...
The Functionality of Schools in the COVID Era
Dr. Elizabeth Allemann reviews recommendations for re-opening schools safely from national public health and medical professionals, as well as two studies on transmiss...