Posted on 02/14/2020 11:52:04 AM PST by Raebie
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Two Illinois Department of Corrections facilities are locked down because inmates are sick.
The facilities are Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center in East St. Louis and Robinson Correctional Center in Robinson, Ill., near the Indiana border, about 240 miles south of Chicago.
A Department of Corrections spokeswoman told the I-Team about 60 inmates at Southwestern have flu-like symptoms.
In an effort to contain the virus, visits, phone calls and commissary operations are temporarily suspended, but staffing has not been affected.
"We are committed to ensuring the health of the men and women in our custody, and daily medical services are being provided at both facilities," the spokeswoman said.
I had to postpone a get together this week with my best friend. Her son is in college in Western MD and was taken to the hospital for dehydration from influenza (and yes, he tested positive for influenza). She said the entire college is like a giant influenza petri dish right now. I talked with her yesterday and she said he was out of the hospital and back at his dorm, but if he wasn’t feeling any better, she and her husband were going to bring him home today.
No flu shot here.
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