WBGZ Radio 5/14/2021 |
By Doug Jenkins - WBGZ Radio
Madison County is now offering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to kids as young as 12 years old. The change comes following Monday’s approval by the FDA to expand the availability. There are several vaccination clinics coming up in the county over the next week.
Madison County Health Department spokesperson Amy Yeager tells The Big Z the first chance for kids to get vaccinated was Thursday, and it has already proved to be a popular option.
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12 through 17-year-olds must be accompanied to their appointment by a parent. Minors do not need an ID or birth certificate, but the parent or guardian will be asked to show their ID. You can see a calendar of vaccination clinics below.
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Gov. Pritzker announced on Friday that Region 4 will move from Tier 3 into Tier 2 Mitigations. Counties affected by these changes are Bond, Clinton, Madison, Monroe, Randolph, St. Clair, and Washington.
Some of the new changes include allowing limited social gathering, increased sports and recreational gym usage.
Gyms can open with a capacity of no more than ten people at a time. Students will need reservations to use the Student Fitness Center facilities. Club sports can resume under the IDPH All Sports Policy.
Organized sports are limited to 25 people or 25 percent of a buildingâs capacity, whichever is less.
Friends and family and small groups of ten can now gather as long as they follow social distancing and mask guidelines both indoors and outdoors.
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For COVID-19 Response Coordinator Michael Schultz, the first task was finding a company to take on testing the university. He said Shield Illinois was the first company he hoped would do the job.
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âFirst we were going to go with Shield Illinois with the University of Illinois system and that was our plan,â Schultz said. âWe gave them a deadline of when they needed to be FDA approved and they werenât [approved by the deadline].â
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Instead, he went with GENETEWORx, a testing company based out of Virginia. There were four categories that were most important to fill for the company to be chosen: a non-invasive saliva test, a way to accept insurance and process it, a company-provided staff to work at the testing sites and the price.Â
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