URBANA – Carle Health will begin sharing daily updates via its website and social media on the number of people being treated for COVID-19 at its five hospitals and trends in how many people are testing positive for the virus. “We need the information to inspire action rather than spread […]
With COVID-19 spread now exponential in every region of the state, our statewide positivity rate at record highs and hospitalizations already surpassing our Spring peak, all 11 regions will move into Tier 3 effective November 20, 2020 at 12:01am. The new mitigation requirements to combat the surge of COVID-19 across Illinois […]
Editor’s Note: This is a press release. More to come soon With a new wave of COVID-19 surging across the state of Illinois, the Midwest and the nation, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced additional COVID-19 resurgence mitigations will take effect in every […]
Urbana, Ill.— Carle is announcing additional restrictions for visitors and support person restrictions beginning Friday, November 13 at all Carle Health locations. The entire Carle system is seeing an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations. “We’re taking difficult but necessary steps to limit the number of people in our facilities beginning Friday,” […]
CHICAGO – Governor Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) are announcing COVID-19 resurgence mitigations will be implemented in Region 6—East-Central Illinois—beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, November 2, 2020. The region has seen a 7-day rolling average test positivity rate of 8 percent or above for three consecutive […]
American writer William Carlos Williams is known for his staccato-short poems. One called “So much depends upon” gives two images: a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water, and several white chickens beside it. Why these barnyard items and nothing more? To remind us of beautyin what is very ordinary, taken […]
HONOR ROLL Heritage Junior High has compiled the list of honor roll students for the first quarter. A student must have a 3.67 grade point or above for high honors, and 3.0 grade point or above for honors. Following is a list of students who earned high honors and honors: […]
CHAMPAIGN, IL – The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District’s (CUPHD) COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing program is asking residents to answer the call and help slow the spread of COVID-19. By answering the call, you can help keep yourself, your family and your community safe. Residents who test positive for […]
Urbana, Ill.— Carle Health and Community Blood Services of Illinois, are collaborating on an investigational treatment with a century-old approach to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients. First Community Blood Services of Illinois collects plasma from a recovered COVID-19 donor. Then, physicians use it to treat the sickest COVID-19 patients. Carle is the first […]
In a massmail issued today, University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen and the chancellors from the system’s three universities issued new guidelines for students, faculty, and staff amid the global COVID-19 pandemic: Dear faculty, staff and students: We write today to share new policies for the University of Illinois […]
