Last year, there were 2,013 flu cases; now there are 29 - here s why
Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree
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Influenza cases have dropped significantly within the Memorial Health System, with Passavant Area Hospital seeing no cases or hospitalizations since October.
Within the other four Memorial Health System hospitals Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Decatur Memorial Hospital, Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln and Taylorville Memorial Hospital there are 29 active cases, down from 2,013 at the same time last year. There have been six hospitalizations 93 fewer than last year.
Gina Carnduff, director of infection prevention for Memorial Health System, said precautions being taken for COVID-19 are helping prevent the spread of other viruses.
By Jeremy Coumbes on January 19, 2021 at 3:31pm
Restrictions on visitors to Passavant Area Hospital are beginning to ease.
Memorial Health System announced today, as the number of COVID-19 inpatients decreases and the state lifts mitigation efforts in central Illinois, some visitor restrictions will begin to relax tomorrow, Wednesday, January 20th.
One visitor at a time for adult inpatients will be allowed between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. At all five hospitals in the Memorial Health System network, including Passavant in Jacksonville.
The hospitals will allow one support person and one additional visitor for inpatient obstetrics patients. Those two people must be the same for the duration of the stay.
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HSHS St. John’s Hospital intensive-care unit nurse SallyAnn Tamizuddin felt a wave of relief Wednesday after she and a St. John’s ICU doctor became the first two people in Sangamon County to receive COVID-19 vaccines.
“I just will be a lot more relaxed,” said Tamizuddin, 57, a nurse at the Springfield hospital for eight years. Of COVID-19, she said, “It won’t be able to touch me. It won’t be able to get to me.”
Tamizuddin and Dr. Prashant Jagtap, medical director of St. John’s ICUs, were vaccinated at the same time, receiving the first of the two-dose regimen from the Pfizer vaccine supply that St. John’s received earlier in the day. The first and second doses are given a minimum of three weeks apart.