COVID-19 vaccines headed to hospitals
Rochelle Eiselt, Journal-Courier
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Passavant Area Hospital is expected to receive 440 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.Javier Zayas Photography
County health departments soon will provide the COVID-19 vaccine to Memorial Health System hospitals to administer to health care workers.
Memorial is expecting the vaccine to arrive this week, said Michael Leathers, media relations consultant for Memorial Medical Center. That still could change, though, he said.
As of Monday, Memorial Medical Center was expected to receive 350 doses of the vaccine, while Passavant Area Hospital was expected to receive 440, numbers that remained unchanged on Tuesday, Leathers said.
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to rage Tuesday in Illinois as health-care workers in Chicago and Peoria began to receive the state s first doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
The vaccine apparently hasn’t arrived in Springfield yet, but officials at Memorial Medical Center and HSHS St. John’s Hospital were hopeful inoculations of their health care workers could begin later this week.
The Illinois Department of Public Health on Tuesday reported 117 additional COVID-19-related deaths and 7,359 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases.
The IDPH said Illinois has recorded a total of 863,477 positive cases, including 14,509 deaths.
It was unclear how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine – the first to receive federal approval – St. John’s would receive for its frontline workers this week.
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One dies, one hurt as massive fire engulfs Jacksonville home
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One person died and one was injured Wednesday when fire roared through a Sandusky Street residence.Dennis Mathes | Journal-CourierShow MoreShow Less
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One person died and one was injured Wednesday when fire roared through a Sandusky Street residence.Dennis Mathes | Journal-CourierShow MoreShow Less
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One person died and another was injured in a massive house fire early Wednesday.
Jacksonville firefighters were called to the blaze at a residence in the 300 block of Sandusky Street shortly after midnight. When they arrived, the house was fully engulfed, according to a Jacksonville Police Department report.
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