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Last week, the Daily sat down with Chief Risk and Compliance Officer and Senior Associate Vice President Luke Figora to discuss Northwestern’s COVID-19 response, vaccination plans and student testing. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. The Daily: Does the University have a threshold for implementing a Wildcat Wellness quarantine in the middle of a quarter?  Figora: I don’t think there’s a hard metric in terms of number of positive cases or a specific positivity threshold that we’ve hit that we can flip that trigger. We’ve tried to think about it more as, “Is ...

Postcards sent to vaccine eligible residents COVID-19 rate lowest since July Ron DeBrock, ronald.debrock@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail This Madison County Health Department graphic illustrates the number of COVID-19 related deaths in the county since April 2020. WOOD RIVER — The Madison County Health Department and Madison County Community Development (MCCD) are mailing 23,965 postcards to residents 65 and older on how to schedule an vaccination appointment. Information includes where to find links for scheduling an appointment online and the phone number to call for scheduling an ...

County vaccinations now tally over 68,000 Ron DeBrock, ronald.debrock@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail WOOD RIVER — More than 68,000 Madison County residents had receive at least one COVID-19 vaccination as of Sunday morning, according to the Illinois Deepartment of Public Health. The Madison County Health Department held vaccination clinics Saturday and Sunday at Lewis & Clark Community College in Godfrey. The health department also is planning vaccinations at LaMay’s Catering in Alton on Monday and the Gateway Convention Center in Collinsville on Monday and Tuesday. For more infor...

Weekend COVID vaccinations set at Lewis & Clark Ron DeBrock, ronald.debrock@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail GODFREY — The Madison County Health Department will offer COVID-19 vaccinations on Saturday and Sunday in Godfrey. On Friday afternoon, appointment times remained available for March 6-7 at Lewis & Clark Community College’s Commons Building, 5800 Godfrey Road, for COVID-19 vaccinations through the health department. To register for an appointment, people can visit https://events.juvare.com/IL-IDPH/eb043333-b68e-4b60-81c6-86d3b2c3c07e/198126/. People without access to a comput...

WOOD RIVER — Multiple COVID-19 vaccination appointment times were listed as available...