CHAMPAIGN â While Champaign County was poised to receive its third COVID-19 vaccine shipment soon, Vermilion County had yet to receive a single dose.
âOur understanding is if we did not have it by the 24th, it would have been here yesterday,â Doug Toole, administrator of the Vermilion County Health Department, said Tuesday of that countyâs first vaccine shipment.
As of Tuesday afternoon: Still no vaccine in Vermilion County, he said.
With health care personnel first in line statewide for COVID-19 vaccinations, neither of Vermilion Countyâs hospitals â OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center and Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center â had received vaccines for its staff members.
A warning, from the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District: If you attended Urbana s Rest-Oration Church (1720 Philo Road) anytime between Dec. 12 and Tuesday, you could have been exposed to COVID-19. If you were present during this time period, get tested immediately, self-quarantine and then retest this weekend, the health district advised in an announcement early Tuesday evening. Please stay at home and do not attend any gatherings. If you develop symptoms over the next 14 days, please test again for COVID-19. If you have questions, contact the CUPHD COVID-19 hotline at 217-239-7877 or email coronavirus@c-uphd.org.
The health district said an investigation into COVID-19 spread at the church is ongoing. No further information is available at this time.
CHAMPAIGN â Get ready to roll up some more sleeves, Champaign County.
A second shipment of COVID-19 vaccine is expected to arrive in Champaign County this week and is expected to include several thousand doses, according to Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Administrator Julie Pryde.
Last weekâs shipment allowed for hundreds of Carle Foundation Hospital employees and dozens at OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center to be vaccinated.
Next up for vaccinations in Champaign County: Many health care workers who havenât yet been vaccinated, including more at Carle and OSF, plus some direct patient care staff members at Frances Nelson Health Center, Christie Clinic and University of Illinois McKinley Health Center, Pryde said.
Four Ford County residents linked to a COVID-19 outbreak at a long-term care facility in Gibson City have died, local health officials said Friday.
The deaths of two men in their 80s and a man and woman in their 90s âare associated with an outbreak at Heritage Health in Gibson City,â the Ford County Public Health Department announced.
Their deaths bring the countyâs pandemic total to 32. Ford were among the 50 Illinois counties where frontline healthcare workers were designated to receive the first doses of Pfizerâs COVID-19 vaccine this week because of the county s high death rate.
The county health department also announced 18 new cases, pushing its total to 1,079.