Missouri saw the worst day yet of the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday when the state reported almost 1,000 new infections and logged another 10 deaths from the disease. With at least one new case in 78 local health jurisdictions and rising case counts among the young — 93 of the 180 cases reported in Boone County since last Wednesday are people under 24 — health officials are worried about what will happen when schools and colleges reopen next month. "If we can't keep it under control in that small number we have now, we are very, very concerned about what will happen when the students come back," Scott Clardy, assistant director of the Columbia-Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services said Tuesday...
