District 47 board candidate disregarded contact tracing order, records show Crystal Lake Elementary District 47 school board candidate Cascia Talbert
Updated 3/16/2021 8:51 AM
A social media post by a Crystal Lake Elementary School District 47 board candidate last month suggesting she would ignore the district s request for her to quarantine her kids led to concerned parents and residents reaching out to the district, the McHenry County Department of Health and the Crystal Lake Police Department, records show.
Cascia Talbert, who currently is not a member of the school board but is running for a spot in the upcoming election, posted an email from a school nurse saying a person who rode on a district bus tested positive for COVID-19, according to screenshots of the Facebook post sent into the Northwest Herald. According to the email, Talbert should quarantine her children if they were on the bus that day.
McHenry County to hold virtual town hall on vaccine March 23
Updated 3/14/2021 5:16 PM
McHenry County officials and the McHenry County Department of Health will hold a virtual town hall meeting for residents to get their questions answered about the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and the different paths available to receive it.
The meeting will be streamed on Facebook Live from 7 to 8 p.m. March 23. It will feature county board Chairman Mike Buehler, Public Health Administrator Melissa Adamson, Director of Nursing Susan Karras and Public Health and Community Services Committee Chairwoman Lori Parrish.
Joining them will be Dr. Irfan Hafiz, infectious disease specialist and chief medical officer for Northwestern Medicine hospitals in Huntley, McHenry and Woodstock.
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National Guard to help run a new McHenry County vaccination site
Updated 3/11/2021 6:28 PM
The Illinois National Guard is set to be deployed to McHenry County to run a new mass vaccination site with additional doses provided by the state beyond the county s normal allocation, County Board Chairman Mike Buehler said Thursday.
The McHenry County Department of Health visited a potential site for this new vaccine clinic with members of the National Guard on Thursday, Public Health Administrator Melissa Adamson said in a meeting of county board members ahead of the visit.
We appreciate and welcome the governor s and [the Illinois Department of Public Health s] assistance in getting McHenry County more vaccine to our population that wants it and look forward to working with the National Guard, Buehler said in an interview Thursday afternoon.