School health officials call for vigilance with new COVID variant in Illinois

A new variant of COVID-19 was discovered in the Chicago area of Illinois; while school health officials say the variant hasn’t heavily impacted our area, they warned of the possible consequences if students don’t remain vigilant. 
Jerry Kruse, medical doctor and dean and provost of the SIU School of Medicine, said that even though Illinois has moved into less restrictive mitigations, this new variant means residents shouldn’t ease up on pandemic protocol. 
“The issue with the new variants is that oftentimes, they’re more infectious than the other ones, and that means that the average number of people who can be infected by one person might be a little bit higher,” Kruse said. “And so the message we’re getting out is to not let our guard down … we’ve moved back to a more liberal either tier or phase by the State of Illinois, and that kind of encourages people to get together or drop their guard down on their preventative measures — that’s the wrong thing to do right now.”

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