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RSV is not uncommon and health care authorities say most children will have gotten a cases of the virus before they're 2 years old, but a Bloomington-Normal pediatrician said the trend has been toward older children having more serious issues with the virus.

The organization needs the communities help in providing more than 2,500 gifts for children and teens, as well as meals to those who care for them.

 — All OSF HealthCare computers are back online as of Sunday after a two-day outage. Spokesperson Libby Allison said service was restored systemwide by midnight Saturday after an outage took the computer system that provides patient information at several hospitals and facilities offline mid-Friday afternoon.  OSF HealthCare has 14 hospitals and numerous other facilities throughout Illinois and Michigan. The cause of the outage is still under investigation, but it began about 3:45 a.m...

(WEEK) --- OSF Healthcare announced multiple hospitals are back online Saturday after network issue Friday that impacted IT systems. The following hospitals are back online, and Media Relations Coordinator Libby Allison says they expect others to follow throughout the day: OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center in Pontiac OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center in Danville OSF Saint Paul Medical Center in Mendota OSF Saint Luke Medical Center in Kew...

Emily Bollinger / WGLT Health care workers were given top priority when COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out across the country. But not all who are eligible are jumping at the opportunity. A recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found nearly a third (29%) of health care workers probably or definitely would not accept a COVID-19 vaccine. That’s slightly higher than the percentage of the general public that said they don’t plan to take it (27%). Those figures are on par with what...

Screenshot from video provided by Gov. J.B. Pritzkers office Originally published on December 15, 2020 1:51 pm When Gov. JB Pritzker observes COVID-19 vaccines administered at a Peoria hospital on Tuesday morning, he’ll be witnessing among the first COVID-19 inoculations in Illinois after the state received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech. The state received 48,000 doses of the vaccine on Monday — about half what the state is expecting this week. Pritz...