IDPH warned of low pediatric ICU availability this fall due to increased RSV hospitalizations in children, and those ages 65 and older are also seeing higher rates of severe illness.
Southern Seven Health Dept. to host virtual town hall; Alexander Co. has lowest vaccination rate in Ill. The Southern Seven Health Department will hold a virtual town hall as Alexander County has the lowest vaccination rate in Illinois. (Source: KFVS) By Amber Ruch | May 14, 2021 at 2:27 PM CDT - Updated May 14 at 2:27 PM
ALEXANDER COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - The Southern Seven Health Department will hold a virtual town hall as Alexander County has the lowest vaccination rate in Illinois.
The community COVID-19 virtual town hall meeting will be May 25 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The Southern Seven Health Department said it was approached by members of the Alexander-Pulaski branch of the NAACP to plan the virtual town hall meeting in response to the reduction in attendance at vaccine clinics in the area.
The nation s top doctor recently stopped in Illinois to urge people to get vaccinated. At a Dec. 22 press conference in Chicago, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams recounted speaking earlier in the day with a nurse at a hospital who worked in an ICU that was at capacity. Even if you don t personally feel at risk from COVID, your actions still can have an impact on you, your family and your community in other ways, said Adams. That full ICU, it s full because there are COVID patients pushing it over the top. That means people facing emergencies such as car accidents or heart attacks could find there isn t a bed for them, he said.