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National Guard coming to McHenry County Wednesday to boost vaccination effort Two teams of Illinois National Guard members are being deployed to McHenry County to help with COVID-19 vaccinations. Matthew Apgar/Shaw Media
Updated 3/17/2021 11:13 AM
Two teams of Illinois National Guard members will be deployed to McHenry County a mobile unit arriving Wednesday will be used, in part, to vaccinate local manufacturing employees, and a stationary unit arriving at the end of the month will staff clinics supervised by the county health department.
In providing this support, the state requires the health department run vaccine clinics six days a week including weekends, meaning clinics will be offered Tuesday through Sunday for the duration of the National Guard s six-to-eight-week stay, Public Health Nursing Director Susan Karras said in an interview Tuesday.
McHenry County Health Department to hire more staff after logging over 1,400 overtime hours in January Workers prepare Moderna COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday during a COVID-19 vaccination clinic through the McHenry County Department of Health at 1900 N. Richmond Road, the former site of a Kmart store in McHenry. Vaccinations are made by appointment only. Matthew Apgar/Shaw Media
Updated 3/4/2021 10:00 AM
The McHenry County Department of Health will hire more staff with the help of a new grant after reporting high rates of staff burnout due to the stress of pandemic-related workloads, which have been ongoing for almost a full year now.
The public health nursing division s 12 employees logged a cumulative total of 1,433 overtime hours during January alone, Public Health Nursing Director Susan Karras said in a McHenry County Board of Health meeting last week. Given that the vast majority of those employees are salaried, overtime hours are unpaid, she added.
Updated 1/28/2021 8:28 AM
Creekside Tap in Algonquin became the first business in McHenry County to plead guilty to violating the state s COVID-19 rules around masking and social distancing, resulting in a $75 fine for the business, an attorney with the McHenry County state s attorney s office said Wednesday.
The bar s owner, Valerie Wood-Hellyer, said the notice to appear in court came as quite a surprise as she felt they had followed the McHenry County Department of Health s instructions when they were visited and came into compliance with the state s rules.
They gave no indication that they were going to issue a summons to appear in court, Wood-Hellyer said in a written statement Wednesday. In fact, they were very nice and understanding of how difficult our situation is, as we are understanding as to how difficult their job is right now.