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Ripperda said he sees maybe one patient per year that develops the condition. He said, the disease can be caused by a wide range of viruses and the new reports do reveal kids 15-to-18 have developed the disease a couple of days after getting the vaccine. Dr. Ripperda said it's not something parents should worry about because it heals itself. "Will typically cause some chest discomfort. The good news is it's generally a transient condition, meaning it just goes away on its own. Just watch and wait and give it a little bit of time. It's not the most comfortable thing to go through, but it's ty...

Health leaders team up for campaign to battle vaccine hesitancy CARTERVILLE, Ill. (WSIL) -- With demand for rural vaccines going down authorities are stepping in to help change the minds of vaccine holdouts. "Get back to normal life," Shawnee healthcare nurse practitioner Jessica Baine said was the goal. "I want to go to concerts I want to travel. And I know so many people who want to do that." Baine went on River Radio in Carterville Wednesday to share her experience not only as a healthcare provider but a working mom in the pandemic. She joins 30 healthcare prov...

Heartland health experts talk about Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine Heartland health experts talk about Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine By Alayna Chapie | February 26, 2021 at 3:32 PM CST - Updated February 26 at 10:26 PM CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - U.S. health advisers endorsed a one-dose COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. However, there are some differences between this vaccine and Pfizer and Moderna. “If we still have thousands of people getting COVID, but nobody dying of C...

People just don’t think it is a problem until it affects them personally. Disappointing. - don the legend - Friday, Dec 18, 20 @ 10:16 am: That’s the sickening price to be paid so Bailey, DeVore and Ives can have their Christmas party. Website where you can track hospitalizations and ICU bed capacity down to the county level. If a county has “No Data” it’s most likely because their patients were transferred to a larger hospital system, not because there weren’t any patients from that county. In some cases, almost half the patients in ICU are on ventilators. And, once you are on a...

This is Southern Illinois, at the end of a year like no other in living memory. A Belleville emergency room nurse despairs at what she’s seen, from both the living and the dying. An immigrant restaurant owner in Marion clings to her business, determined to stay open. A lifelong Carterville Republican has to silence herself when she is with family because she voted for Joe Biden. A Black Army veteran in O’Fallon watches resentment grow as aggrieved whites react to the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. COVID-19 didn’t create the divisions and disillusion that seem to ...