St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force.Media Briefing

Dr. Alex Garza, incident commander for The St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, listens to a speaker talk about the hardship of the coronavirus during his media briefing, in Earth City, Missouri on Monday, October 26, 2020. Garza warned that they are seeing a high number of occupied hospital beds and that there are not enough healthcare workers to staff those hospital beds because more frontline workers are catching the virus. Missouri now records 177,000 that have contacted the disease with 2864 deaths. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI