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Madison, St. Clair counties have combined to fully vaccinate nearly 121,000 residents
Belleville News-Democrat 3 days ago Garen Vartanian, Belleville News-Democrat
Apr. 7 COVID-19 summary for Wednesday, April 7
According to data released by the Illinois Department of Public Health on Wednesday, Madison and St. Clair counties have combined to vaccinate 282,652 people and fully vaccinated 120,891 against the coronavirus.
Overall, Madison County has administered 144,811 COVID-19 vaccines and fully vaccinated 62,722 residents, and St. Clair County has administered 137,841 vaccines and fully vaccinated 58,169 individuals.
Meanwhile, the metro-east region has now fully vaccinated 149,319 people and administered at least one dose of the vaccine to 350,974 individuals.
In total, nearly 2.5 million Illinoisans have been fully vaccinated.
St. Clair County has plenty of COVID vaccines, but not enough arms to inject them into
Belleville News-Democrat 2 days ago Kelsey Landis, Belleville News-Democrat
Apr. 1 St. Clair County has administered nearly 126,000 COVID-19 vaccines since mid-December, but the problem is no longer about the supply it s the demand, public health officials said Tuesday.
A lot of people still don t know that anyone over 16 who lives, works or attends school in Illinois is eligible. Or they don t know how to schedule an appointment, St. Clair County Chairman Mark Kern said during a virtual town hall with local legislators and vaccination effort leaders. Only 20% of the population in St. Clair County has been fully vaccinated.
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Southwestern IL counties report 400 new COVID-19 cases since Christmas Eve
Belleville News-Democrat 12/27/2020 Lexi Cortes, Belleville News-Democrat
Dec. 27 Metro-east health officials on Saturday reported 400 new COVID-19 diagnoses in their communities and 13 deaths to the respiratory disease.
Some counties included statistics from multiple days in the numbers they announced Saturday, following the holidays. Washington County reported data from three days; St. Clair County reported data from two.
Local leaders don t yet know if there will be a surge in diagnoses following December holidays, including Christmas. It will take a couple of weeks to find out, Herb Simmons, director of the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency, said during Saturday s county COVID-19 briefing.