Swango was in the Colorado prison after admitting he failed to disclose to Stony Brook officials that he had spent 30 months in jail and lost his medical license in 1985 for poisoning six co-workers in Quincy, Ill. No one died in that case.
Swango was dismissed in 1992 from the University of South Dakota School of Medicine’s residency program after officials said he had withheld information about the 1985 Illinois conviction.
..is imprisoned in the ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado alongside some of the most notorious killers of modern times including drug kingpin “El Chapo,” the Unabomber, and the Boston Bomber:
Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday signed into law a wide-ranging bill promoting health care equity for Black, Hispanic and low-income patients by enhancing mental health services, requiring bias training for doctors and creating a community health worker program. This legislation advances a key belief of mine that I know is shared by everyone standing with me and millions of residents across Illinois â health care is a right, not a privilege, Pritzker said at a bill-signing ceremony for House Bill 158 in Springfield at Memorial Medical Center s Memorial Center for Learning and Innovation. Justice isn t just about what happens in a courtroom, the governor said. Justice is access to economic opportunity, to a great education, and yes, to affordable, quality, personalized health care. It s about recognizing that communities across our state have been left out and left behind, and then doing something about that.
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Illinois on Tuesday temporarily halted shots of Johnson & Johnson s popular one-dose vaccine for COVID-19 on the advice of federal health authorities who plan to meet Wednesday and review six U.S. cases of a rare and severe-type blood clot among the 6.8 million J&J vaccine recipients.
A statement from the Illinois Department of Public Health said the department instructed all providers of COVID-19 vaccines in the state to immediately discontinue use of the J&J vaccine at this time out of an abundance of caution.
FDA,CDC recommend J&J pause: Rare but severe blood clots reported
State officials indicated that the temporary suspension of J&J vaccine wouldn t significantly hamper efforts to vaccinate the population in the short term as officials try to reach herd immunity by getting at least 70% to 80% of Illinoisans vaccinated.
Hannah Meisel
Despite shelving around 2,300 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, the Sangamon County Department of Public Health won’t have trouble supplying planned vaccination clinics in the coming weeks, according to department director Gail O’Neill.
The county is following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Illinois Department of Public Health to pause the vaccine’s use as federal authorities investigate whether there’s a causal link between the vaccine and rare blood clotting reported in six people out of nearly 7 million Americans who got a Johnson & Johnson shot.
The Sangamon County health department had been using the single-dose shots to vaccinate residents in rural and other hard-to-reach communities with a mobile unit staffed by the Illinois National Guard. The department continued with its planned schedule of visits Tuesday, with a site set up at Abundant Faith Christian Center in Springfield, but used Pf