COVID19

          Cook County Dept. of Public Health Will be giving FREE COVID-19 Vaccinations & FREE COVID-19 Rapid Testing on SUNDAY, SEPT. 12TH ~ 3:00pm – 5:00pm Ages 12 and up Location: Hazel Crest Park District Commissioners Park 2600 W. 171st St, Hazel Crest, IL

Rising COVID-19 Case Counts And Highly Contagious Delta Variant Force Remediation Action   The Cook County Department of Public Health announced that all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, will be required to wear a mask indoors, beginning on Monday, Aug. 23rd.   Read on to learn more: https://cookcountypublichealth.org/2021/08/20/cook-county-department-of-public-health-mandates-indoor-mask-wearing/

Get your FREE COVID-19 Vaccination (Pfizer Vaccine) TODAY! Wednesday, Aug. 25th ~ 10am – Noon Vernard L. Alsberry Municipal Center 3601 W. 183rd Street, Hazel Crest, Illinois   Vaccinations provided by CIMPAR

llinois residents unable to pay rent because of the COVID-19 pandemic have been protected from eviction through Gov. JB Pritzker’s executive action, but that reality could change come Sept. 1st.  What comes after Sept. 1 is not immediately clear…   But if nothing changes, many renters’ and landlords’ futures will largely revolve around the state’s…

Dr. Anthony Fauci has dismissed a study that deemed the Moderna vaccine as more effective than the Pfizer one against the COVID-19 delta variant.   Read on to learn more: https://www.foxnews.com/health/fauci-study-delta-efficacy-moderna-pfizer-booster

Chicago and Cook County Health officials announced Friday they are now recommending “universal masking” while indoors in public places, in alignment with CDC guidance. That guidance is voluntary, for now. “Over the last 7 days, our daily average has been about 51-52 people per 100,000 people. And according to the CDC’s guidelines, this outs us…

The Opportunity Works Program at Prairie State College is currently recruiting participants for their PAID internship and job training program beginning on July 21st.

The updated guidelines note that fully vaccinated staff and students may not need to wear masks at school. (But because of the CDC order requiring masks on public transportation, they would have to mask up on school buses.) For students too young to be vaccinated at this time, the CDC suggests multiple strategies to reduce…

A new study, published online Wednesday, sheds light on why. It finds that the variant grows more rapidly inside people’s respiratory tracts and to much higher levels, researchers at the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported.   Read on to learn more: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/08/1013794996/why-the-delta-variant-is-so-contagious-a-new-study-sheds-light