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MORRIS-The Grundy County Health Department provides information about vaccination efforts, cases, county and regional metrics.
Vaccination
IL Department of Public Health (IDPH) data shows that 53.11% of the Grundy population is fully vaccinated.
Walk-in COVID-19 vaccine clinics for the final week of December are as follows:
Residents 12 years and older
Wednesday, December 29, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Grundy Administration Building, 1320 Union Street, Morris
All 3 vaccines will be available as supplies last. Doses to be administered include 1st and 2nd for 12 years+, and boosters for 16 years+. Unless obtaining a 1st dose, vaccine record of previous doses administered must be presented.
Residents 5 – 11 years old
Thursday, December 30, 2 p.m. – 7 p.m.
The Wesley Center, 111 W North Street, Morris
Pfizer will be the only vaccine available at this clinic, and only for pediatric. No adult vaccine at this clinic.
Additional clinics are being planned for Grundy in January, and information will be released soon. Local pharmacies continue to have pediatric and adult vaccine available.
Cases
To date, the total number of positive cases in Grundy is nine-thousand four-hundred and eighty (9,480), with ninety-nine (99) residents who have passed away as a result of COVID-19 complications.
Presently, the Grundy County Health Department is following two-hundred and fifty-nine (259) people who have recently tested positive and are in isolation, and each of their close contacts.
Grundy County remains an “orange” status in the measurements of risk. The “orange” level indicates that there are warning signs of increased COVID-19 risk in the county.
Isolation and Quarantine
On Monday, December 27th, the CDC updated and shorted the recommended isolation and quarantine periods for the general population.
As of this writing, IDPH has not formally adopted the same guidelines. Grundy will await guidance from IDPH before adopting any changes locally. Isolation and quarantine guidance can be found at https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/community-guidance/isolation-quarantine.
School Metrics
Outbreak status is defined by IDPH and protocol for response is provided by IL State Board of Education (ISBE) in consultation with IDPH. When positive cases are identified within a school setting, school leadership confers with local Health Department staff. If three or more (or 10% of a cohort) linked cases are identified, the Health epartment guides the school in following the ISBE/IDPH guidance as it relates to outbreaks, which may include quarantining of individuals associated with that space, recommended testing of persons in that space but greater than 6 feet of distance, and/or closure of a classroom/other space.
Decision trees and guidance documents are available for public viewing at www.isbe.net/Pages/covid19.aspx.
School leadership may also make an instructional decision to offer remote learning for a cohort of students if the number of students who are ill or close contacts results in minimal in-person attendance. These decisions are made by looking at the specific case and evaluating available resources.
Grundy currently has some small outbreaks identified (i.e. a classroom or sports team), but no entire school or district is presently in outbreak status. School outbreak information may be found at dph.illinois.gov.
Grundy County Health Department and local school districts continue to follow IDPH and ISBE decision trees and other guidance documents, which are updated often.
Additional information related to school outbreaks or potential exposures associated with schools across Illinois may be found at dph.illinois.gov/covid19/school-exposures.