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Patience key need in vaccine distribution
Dylan Suttles, dylan.suttles@thetelegraph.com
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ALTON The most important thing to have right now is patience, Madison County Health Director Toni Corona told a COVID-19 forum hosted by the RiverBend Growth Association (RBGA) on Wednesday.
“Please don’t let your guard down,” Corona said. “It’s so very important that we are taking those necessary precautions to prevent Covid illness.”
Region 4 which includes Madison County is the last of the state’s 11 regions remaining with the stricter Tier 2 regulations.
To move from Tier 1 to Phase 4, regions must have positivity rates at 6.5 percent or below for three days as well as intensive care unit bed availability at 20 percent for three consecutive days, and no sustained increase in COVID hospitalizations. Movement from Tier 2 to Tier 1 requires positivity rates between 6.5 percent and 8 percent for three days, and the same ICU bed and hospitalizat