"Vaccine distribution slowed in many areas because of winter storms engulfing much of the country on Monday and Tuesday. Missouri has canceled all of its mass vaccination events scheduled until after next weekend because of the extreme winter weather. These conditions will also likely delay some vaccine shipments.“ MSN news

“In some cases, residents who nabbed elusive vaccine appointments for themselves or their family members now find themselves back at the start of their search.” Washington Post

“The US is still months away from having most Americans vaccinated. About 14 million Americans have been fully vaccinated with both doses of their Covid-19 vaccines. That's only about 4% of the US population. And it takes weeks for vaccines to fully kick in.” CNN

“Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN’s Jim Sciutto that it could be mid to late May or early June before vaccines are widely available to the general population after he offered an earlier timeline last week.” CNN

It is now predicted that most of the adult population of the United States (who want the vaccine) won’t be fully vaccinated until early Fall 2021.

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COLD. COLD. COLD continues. Here are some local, daily records that have been set over the last few days:

Sunday, Feb. 14
• New record low
• New coldest high

Monday, Feb. 15:
• New record low
• New coldest high

It also set the record for the latest sub-zero high temperature in the winter season, previously set on Feb. 9 in 1899.

Tuesday: Feb. 16
• New record low

Rolling Power Outages (because of the extreme cold) are also still continuing Metro without advance notice.