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Missouri History Today August 24, 2020: COVID Prompts Governor To Hand Out Masks

by Missouri Life

On this date during the COVID pandemic in 2020, Governor Mike Parsons handed out cloth face masks in the St. Charles County School District, according to a schedule published to the governor’s website. He worked alongside the State Emergency Management Agency during a week that also included meetings about expanded access to virtual health care in the state.

Photo credit: Highsmith, C. M., photographer. (2021) The governor’s mansion in Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri. United States Jefferson City Missouri, 2021. -03-19. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021756239/.