Springfield Clinic
Where: To be evaluated for testing at a Springfield Clinic primary care provider’s office, call in advance to talk through testing options. To be evaluated for testing at any Springfield Clinic Urgent Care location, walk-in or book an appointment online: Springfield Clinic Main, 1025 S. Sixth St.; Springfield Clinic Urgent Care West, 2200 Wabash Ave.; Springfield Clinic Urgent Care Sherman, 400 St. John’s Dr., Sherman; Springfield Clinic Urgent Care Jacksonville, 1000 West Morton Ave., Jacksonville.
When: Provider offices: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Urgent Care: Main Campus 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Sunday. Wabash, Sherman and Jacksonville 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
The nation s top doctor recently stopped in Illinois to urge people to get vaccinated. At a Dec. 22 press conference in Chicago, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams recounted speaking earlier in the day with a nurse at a hospital who worked in an ICU that was at capacity. Even if you don t personally feel at risk from COVID, your actions still can have an impact on you, your family and your community in other ways, said Adams. That full ICU, it s full because there are COVID patients pushing it over the top. That means people facing emergencies such as car accidents or heart attacks could find there isn t a bed for them, he said.
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The state’s positivity rate increased to 8.1%, the fifth straight day it has gone up.
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 970,590 cases, including 16,647 deaths.
Nationally, the Johns Hopkins University & Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center reported Friday that the U.S. had gone over 20 million positive cases.
Statewide, laboratories had done 97,222 tests in the last 24 hours.
As of Thursday evening, 4,093 patients were in Illinois hospitals with COVID-19 and of those, 837 patients were in the intensive care unit. There were 496 patients with COVID-19 on ventilators.
The Sangamon County Department of Public Health was closed Friday for New Year s Day. It will issue its next report on Monday. That report will cover case counts from Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
The announcement that bars and restaurants can reopen for indoor service at 25% capacity beginning Sunday was great news for the industry, said Jose Lopez Jr., owner of Casa Real, 3100 West White Oaks Drive. For me personally it s a lot of extra work, a lot of extra expense that has come with (outdoor dining), but we ve continued to do it because it was one option to continue moving forward and offer some sort of dining, Lopez said. (The indoor dining) gives us something to look forward to.
Per the announcement Wednesday by the Sangamon County Department of Public Health, establishments may not begin serving the public until 6 a.m. and must cease indoor service by 9 p.m.