Published December 23, 2020 •
Updated on December 23, 2020 at 4:12 pm
Associated Press
The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs are investigating a case of Legionnaires disease at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy, officials said Wednesday.
A resident who tested positive for coronavirus on Nov. 30 and started presenting symptoms of pneumonia on Dec. 16 received a positive test for legionella on Dec. 22, the health department said.
The resident is recovering and responding well to medical treatment, officials said. No other cases of the illness contracted by breathing infected water vapor have been identified at the home and a legionella test was last conducted in the hall in which the resident lives on Oct. 27.
SHERIDAN, Wyoming (Dec. 23, 2020) Army Veteran Kenneth Pawley receives the first COVID19 vaccine in the Sheridan VA Health Care System from Assistant Nurse Manager Geo Gillett, while Registered Nurse Jessica Bettles assists. Pawley is a resident in the Sheridan VA long-term care facility. The Sheridan VA received an initial shipment of the vaccine Dec. 22 and began vaccinating Veterans in its long-term care facility who were interested in receiving it on Dec. 23. (Official VA Photo by Cynthia Neukam.)
The Sheridan VA Health Care System received an initial shipment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 22, and began offering vaccinations today to high-risk Veterans living in the medical center’s long-term care facility.
The late John Joseph McNeill OAM was an old-fashioned romantic, dedicated grandfather and a champion of the Habana community. He passed away on November 14, aged 74, from jaundice and gall stones which had developed in his kidney and liver. His surviving wife Joyce McNeill said she met the Mackay local during his three-year posting to England in 1971 after he had served in the Vietnam War. He was an instructor with RAEME (Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers), Mrs McNeill said. I worked as a customs officer at an airport and I did some spare work for a friend of mine who had a pub.
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Rain showers this evening with clearing overnight. Low 41F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 50%. Updated: April 17, 2021 @ 8:40 pm