Over the last five days, an average of 15 Laclede County residents have tested positive for COVID

Over the last five days, an average of 15 Laclede County residents have tested positive for the COVID virus. The Laclede County Health Department released a new situation report on Wednesday. Regional Radio’s, Bruce Wayne, has the numbers from that report

In Missouri, nearly 13-thousand residents have died from COVID over the last 20 months, an average of 22 people every single day over that time frame. Over 5-thousand new cases were reported on Monday alone in Missouri. Over 808-thousand Americans have lost their lives to the virus over that same time frame, an average of 1,347 Americans each and every day since the pandemic began. The COVID pandemic has greatly surpassed the Influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, in which 675-thousand Americans died.