COVID vaccines for children are becoming available locally. From the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District's facebook post on the subject:
Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Is Now Available for Children
Community vaccination clinics available by appointment for children aged 5-11
CHAMPAIGN, IL – The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District (CUPHD), in partnership with Carle Health, OSF HealthCare, Christie Clinic, Promise Healthcare, and the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign, are organizing community clinics for va Pfizer COVID-19 cunation for children aged 5-11 years.
According to a press release from the US Food and Drug Administration. U.S. (FDA), “In the USA. U.S. , COVID-19 cases in children aged 5 to 11 make up 39% of cases in people under 18 years old. According to the CDC, approximately 8,300 cases of COVID-19 in children aged 5 to 11 resulted in hospitalization. As of October 17, there have been 691 COVID-19 deaths reported in the U.S. U.S. in people under the age of 18, with 146 deaths in the age group of 5-11 years.
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years old is administered as a two-dose series, 3 weeks apart, but is a lower dose (10 micrograms) than that used for people aged 12 or older. (30 micrograms).
iHotel & Conference Center – 111 St. Mary’s Road, Champaign
• No walk ins allowed; schedule online at: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B054CA8A82CA5F94-511
• Friday, November 5 from 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
• Saturday, November 6 from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Kohl’s Plaza – 1901 N. Market Street, Champaign
• Appointments will be available soon via MyCarle and Carle.org
Carle community vaccination clinics will feature many of the care providers in the Carle Pediatric and Family Medicine areas or are especially trained to administer the vaccine to children.
• Starting this Saturday, weekends of November:
Saturdays, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
o Domingos, 8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
• Vaccine appointments will be available at primary medical care locations at a later date.
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OSF HealthCare:
• Appointments will be available at all primary medical care offices and can be scheduled via osfhealthcare.org/vaccine
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Pharmacies:
• Visit www.vaccinefinder.org
for appointments available at local pharmacies.
Keep in mind that additional vaccination options may be available through the child's school(a).
You can find additional information about COVID-19 vaccines at: https://www.c-uphd.org/covid-vaccinations.html
Carle Health is also offering vaccine appointments for kids from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays and 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sundays this weekend and every weekend next month at its location at Kohl’s Plaza, 1901 N. Market St., C. Those can be made through the MyCarle patient portal and at Carle.org.
Carle’s clinic will be staffed by pediatric and family-medicine providers trained to administer vaccines to children. It will also be offering appointments to get kids vaccinated at primary-care locations at a later date.
OSF HealthCare is also offering vaccine appointments through primary-care offices at osfhealthcare.org/vaccine.
More at that full article here. Illinois Newsroom had an article previewing the children's vaccine news earlier in October here.
Illinois Newsroom had coverage of absences during the pandemic with links to the latest State "report cards" that allows folks to look up individual schools and district information. Excerpt:
Learning did slow last year during pandemic school – especially for the state’s most vulnerable students...
“We need to recognize that for our Black and Hispanic children, remote learning was not very effective, particularly for English learners. When they are in their community environment, or they’re in their home, they may or may not be utilizing English as much as they would have if they were in a school setting,” says State Superintendent of Education Carmen Ayala.
English and math proficiency rates did decrease across all grade levels for Illinois students as a whole, according to preliminary testing data from the spring.
The differences between 2019 and 2021 were starkest among young English learners. For third through fifth grade English learners, sometimes half as many students were at grade level as before the pandemic.
Full article here. The State's annual report card website link is here.
Carle is splitting from Aetna's Medicare insurance coverage. From Illinois Newsroom:
Medicare is a federal insurance program for those ages 65 and up or who have certain disabilities. Many Medicare recipients choose to supplement with private insurance, like Aetna, to cover prescription drugs or lower their out-of-pocket cost.
[Bridget McGill, an Urbana resident,] received a letter in the mail from Aetna about two weeks ago informing her that the company’s Medicare Advantage will no longer be accepted at Carle Foundation Hospital. This means that the hospital will go out of the company’s network and her costs for hospital and doctor’s visits will go up.
That full article here. Carle was also in the news for its collaboration with the University on cognitive research with new MRI technology. More on that from the Daily Illini here.
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