Children's Memorial Hospital received 500 doses on Monday in a white plastic foam cooler. The hospital has ordered 2,000 more doses of nasal spray and 16,000 doses in shot form.
Cook County Health and Hospitals System received 3,000 nasal spray doses Monday
Daily Herald | Chicago receives 1st doses of swine flu vaccine
Several proposals were discussed at Monday’s evening meeting. Discussion centered on a 6%, a 3% increase and a 3% increase only for non-union employees making less than $50,000. The issue will be discussed again at a committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday , October 14.
Below are the list of non-union employees possibly affected by the salary increase. Please note that in the case of employees of elected officials (such as the Sheriff)—the county only would approve an increase in the personnel budget of the department, any increase would be the prerogative of the elected official.
These employees do not participate in the Social Security Program; most participate in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMFR). None of the figures below consider either the employee or county’s contribution The individual contributes 4.5% of their wages; the county contributes 10.27% of wages. There is a separate levy for IMFR therefore the county’s additional IMFR contribution is not paid out of the General Fund and not included in the budget of the General Fund. Individuals in the Sheriff’s Department participate in the SLEP program, the employee contributes 6.5% and the county’s contribution is 21.37%.
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village board voted Thursday to give each village employee up to seven "pandemic sick leave days," or PSLs, on top of other sick leave, vacation and personal days.
would become available only when the government had declared an influenza pandemic. The employee would have to have used up all his regular sick leave, personal days and comp days. Either he or someone in his household would have to be diagnosed with the flu, or the area where he lived would have to be placed under quarantine, or the school attended by his children or the workplace where his spouse worked would have to be closed because of flu infection.
Click on the following for the rest of the story: Hampshire workers get more time off in case of flu :: The Courier News :: Local News
Someone needs to research this statement, if true it is very damming to this constant conservative request for tort reform.
However, their argument that legislative caps on malpractice awards would reduce the cost of their insurance premiums has proved to be false. In virtually every state where legislators have reduced or abolished pain and suffering awards, premiums for doctors have continued to increase, not decrease.
Read Mr. Johnson’s, [Wonder Lake, Il] complete comments by clicking on the following: Northwest Herald | Tort reform useless
Some real numbers to the Congressional proposals.
Pollitz said the subsidies disappear rapidly for households with solid middle-class incomes. That could be tricky for a self-employed individual who has a particularly good year financially.
Another problem is that people won’t be able to get the insurance tax credits immediately after the bill passes. To hold down costs, the assistance won’t come until 2013, after the next presidential election.
Read more by clicking on the following: Northwest Herald | Medical premiums could be ‘heavy lift’
News we have not heard in Boone-Winnebago Counties.
officials from Belvidere and Rockford appear to have buried the hatchet with their pro-Genoa-route counterparts from DeKalb County. City officials, state legislators, county officials, business leaders and IDOT bigwigs met Monday in an unannounced, closed-door summit meeting in a Rockford restaurant
IDOT railroads chief George Weber said the restaurant meeting "resulted in a consensus that we would go forward with that route. We know that everyone's not happy about that, but we agreed this is the best opportunity to get federal funding."
Trains following the Genoa route would reach the same stations in Rockford and follow the same route between Rockford and Dubuque
To avoid competing against Metra commuter trains, Amtrak would not be allowed to carry passengers from Chicago to South Elgin or from South Elgin to Chicago.
In another development, IDOT announced that a public information meeting about the project will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Northern Illinois University Outreach Center, at 8500 E. State St. in Rockford
Click on the following to read the rest of the story: Genoa, Belvidere bury the hatchet over Amtrak :: The Courier News :: Local News
Swine “fever” destroys the hogs of Cairo.
It was alleged by the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, on the basis of no evidence whatever, that the swine themselves were the carriers of the so-called "swine flu."
As a consequence of the pig massacre, the streets of Cairo have become almost unlivable, and the Christian garbage collectors, locally called the zabaleen, have been robbed of their livelihood.
"They killed the pigs, let them clean the city," as one former garbage collector and pig man, Moussa Rateb, was quoted as saying of the Egyptian authorities.
Click on the following for more details: What Egypt's swine slaughter hath wrought :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Other Views
