Missouri Association of Free and Charitable Clinics

01/18/2022

Order free home test kits now!

Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests. The tests are completely free. Orders will usually ship in 7-12 days.

12/25/2021

11/12/2021

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After more than 17 years, over 36,000 patient visits and countless hours of work by a set of 125 volunteers, the Good Samaritan Care Clinic held its final we...

08/25/2021

JOPLIN, Mo. — The State of Missouri says Joplin is the first city with 50% of patients vaccinated. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services hosts a vaccine dashboard charting how…

08/18/2021

JUST IN: Moderately to severely immunocompromised people with certain medical condition may receive a third dose of a Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Missouri will use a self-attestation model that is in line with federal guidelines, so individuals will not be required to provide documentation of their health status.

Medical conditions and treatments that qualify individuals include, but are not limited to:
- Solid organ transplant and taking immune suppressing medications
- Active treatment for solid tumor and hematologic malignancies
- CAR-T cell or hematopoietic stem cell transplant (within 2 years of transplantation or taking immunosuppression therapy)
- Primary immunodeficiency (eg., DiGeorge, Wiskott-Aldrich Syndromes)
- Advanced or untreated HIV infection
- Active treatment with high-dose corticosteroids or other drugs that may suppress immune response: high dose corticosteroids (ie.,≥ 20 mg prednisone or equivalent per day), alkylating agents, antimetabolites, transplant-related immunosuppressive drugs, cancer chemotherapeutic agents classified as severely immunosuppressive, tumor-necrosis (TNF) blocker or other biologic agents that are immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory

Vaccine providers and events in Missouri can be found at MOStopsCovid.com.

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Full news release: https://health.mo.gov/news/newsitem/uuid/e6e71649-73dc-4ca6-bf44-0e589132cdf8/certain-immunocompromised-individuals-can-now-receive-third-dose-of-covid-19-vaccine-in-missouri

08/17/2021

It's not too late...

08/12/2021

Changing the Covid conversation...

07/27/2021

Tracking COVID varients (source: The World Health Organization)

 All viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, change over time. Most changes have little to no impact on the virus’ properties. However, some changes may affect the virus’s properties, such as how easily it spreads, the associated disease severity, or the performan...

07/16/2021

04/29/2021

Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and former First Ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and Rosalynn C...