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Wagner: Two Choices – Get Vaccine Or Get Covid-19
by Joe Leicht Monroe County Health Director John Wagner sent a seemingly mixed message on covid-19 when he reported to the county board on Jan....

Governor Extends Face Mask Mandate
Through a Jan. 4 executive order, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker extended the state’s face mask wearing mandate through June 3 (150 days). It requires citizens...

Vaccines Begin At Nursing Homes As Deaths And Hospitalizations Increase
New positive cases of covid-19, along with hospitalizations and deaths, continue to roll in during the pandemic. But there is a light at the end...

Illinois Continues To Tweak Its Vaccination Allocation List – Those 65+ Added To Phase 1b Rollout
County health departments throughout the state are patiently waiting for the next shipments of the coronavirus vaccines. The national rollout has been slowed a bit...

First Phase Of Covid Vaccine Distribution Underway
Monroe County received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines on Dec. 23. The 100 doses were administered to healthcare workers with frontline contact with possible...

Monroe County Covid-19 Cases
Oct. 1 - Dec. 28 There have been 2,333 cases since Oct. 1 (That is 77 percent of the total of 3,026 since the pandemic...
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Oak Hill Residents and Staff Receive First Dose of Covid Vaccine
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