The Gateway

Dine-in service is being suspended at restaurants in the Missouri part of the St. Louis region. It follows similar action in Illinois designed to stop the spread of coronavirus. More cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in both states, including the first case in Madison County. Also, we examine how decade-old quarantine policies appear to have left states including Missouri unprepared for the outbreak.

St. Louis officials are reporting the first case of COVID-19 in the city. Health officials also say a third person in St. Louis County has tested positive for the disease caused by the new coronavirus. More positive results are also being reported in Illinois as that state holds its primary election. Also, we examine the implications of a question on the 2020 census that has not received much attention.

Several school districts in the St. Louis region will be shutting down this week for an extended period to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus. In Illinois, restaurants will stop dine-in services tonight. Also, we examine efforts in Missouri to convince people to fill out the census.

The Collective STL is a group of black yoga instructors who provide a space for African Americans to improve their well-being. Most members are educators, activists and social justice workers who practice yoga as a way to prevent mental breakdowns from the stressors of their jobs and work in the community.

A Rolla middle school student who doesn't have use of his right arm is succeeding at the French horn, a left-handed instrument. But the marching French horn, the mellophone, is a right-handed instrument. So Rolla High’s technical school is working with him to create attachments so he can march in the high school band next year.

We answer listener questions about coronavirus.

Hospitals and doctors have been preparing for a case of the new coronavirus disease to be found in the St. Louis area. Washington University infectious disease specialist Hilary Babcock discusses how one local case does not change much in what St. Louis area healthcare professionals are doing and how limited testing makes it difficult to know how much the disease has spread.

A St. Louis County woman presumed to be the first person in Missouri with the new coronavirus took steps that could keep others from becoming infected. But more cases are expected to be found in the coming days, especially as the state gets more kits to test people for the virus.

Children who live amid regular ongoing gun violence in U.S. cities like St. Louis often have a protocol when the gunfire erupts: hide in the bathtub, drop to the floor, seek shelter by the fridge. And sometimes the precautions have just become part of everyday life, such as watching TV from the floor, leaving the lights off at night so no one can see who is home. We tell the story of the long-lasting trauma of everyday living in America’s warzones where even one’s home or daycare center isn’t a safe space.

The rapidly narrowing Democratic presidential race is coming to Missouri — and supporters of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders believe they can make a play for the state's 68 delegates.