
Area first responders including Springfield police, fire, ambulance and dispatch will be working with area medical facilities and the Sangamon County Department of Public Health on a mass casualty training simulation Thursday between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Friday the batches were found in Morgan County and Cook County. The Morgan County batch was found May 16 in Jacksonville.

Urgent care services at the North Dirksen Parkway Memorial Care clinic will soon be changing. Memorial Health and SIU announced Thursday that urgent care services at the location will become a federally qualified health center (FQHC) administered by SIU Medicine.

You can go online to GIFTOFLIFE.org to register for organ donation.

Seasonal allergies crop up at certain times each year, particularly in spring and fall. In 2021, approximately 81 million people in the United States were diagnosed with seasonal allergic rhinitis, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

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