Police arrest a suspect in connection with a shooting in Carbondale last week.
Detectives obtained an arrest warrant for the suspect, 22-year-old Shermarie R. Barnes from Herrin. He was arrested in Williamson County on charges of Aggravated Battery with a Firearm, Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm, and Unlawful Use of a Weapon by a Felon.
Barnes is being held at the Jackson County jail. The investigation is active and ongoing.
Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and generated an immune response in children ages 6 months through 17 years that’s comparable to the response in adults, according to documents posted by the US Food and Drug Administration ahead of key meetings of its independent vaccine advisory group.
The FDA’s vaccine advisers will evaluate next week Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines for children 6 months through 5 years and 6 years through 17 years should be granted emergency use authorization.
Children under 5 years old — about 18 million people — are the only US age group that still isn’t eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine. Moderna’s vaccine is currently available only to people 18 and older. Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is already authorized for children age 5 and older; FDA’s advisers will also evaluate its vaccine for younger children next week.
Briefing documents posted ahead of the FDA committee meetings describe how Moderna’s vaccine was assessed by immuno bridging studies to see if the immune response among younger people was comparable to that of 18-to-25-year-olds, who are already eligible to receive the vaccine.
“Immunobridging success criteria were met for all four pediatric age cohorts,” the FDA’s document stated.
In trials evaluating more than 6,000 children 6 months to under 6 years old, Moderna found two 25-microgram doses of vaccine taken 28 days apart yielded a similar immune response to a two-dose series of vaccine given to18-to-25-year-olds.
For children ages 6 to 17 years, Moderna found two doses of its vaccine also provided a similar immune response as two doses in adults. Children age 6 to 11 received 50-microgram vaccines and adolescents ages 12 to 17 received 100-microgram vaccines.
A man was airlifted to a hospital for treatment of injuries after authorities say he was struck by a train in Union County.
The Union County Sheriff’s Office says it received a phone call around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 11 from the Canadian National Railroad, informing them that one of their trains had just struck a 71-year-old man.
According to a release from the sheriff’s office, the train was traveling northbound out of Anna, Ill. and hit the man at 70 Crowell Heights Loop.
He was taken by ambulance to Union County Hospital and flown by helicopter to a St. Louis hospital
Union Co. Sheriff Dale Foster says the man’s condition is still unknown.
Governor J-B Pritzker is signing a new state law giving workers time off after a miscarriage or other loss. The Family Bereavement Leave Act provides up to 10 days of unpaid leave for employees who have had a child, step-child, parent, sibling or grandparent pass away. It was sponsored on the house floor by representative Anna Moeller of Elgin.
The leave also applies to failed adoptions and unsuccessful fertility treatments. Moeller says it’s important to give employees time to grieve and heal.
Public health officials have identified a third case of monkeypox a week after the first two cases appeared in Illinois.
A man in DuPage County tested positive for monkeypox after traveling internationally. The adult male was in a country that has reported an outbreak, according to the DuPage County Health Department.
Test results were positive Friday at an Illinois Department of Public Health lab. A test to confirm the outcome is pending at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The case remains isolated and at this time there is no indication there is a great risk of extensive local spread of the virus, as monkeypox does not spread as easily as the COVID-19 virus,” the health department said in a news release.
The outbreak of the viral disease reached Illinois June 2 in a man who had traveled to Europe. A second Chicago resident was found to have the illness a day later.
Monkeypox typically spreads by skin-to-skin contact. Most patients suffer fever, body aches, chills and fatigue. Others might develop a rash and lesions on the face and hands that can spread to other parts of the body. It is rarely fatal.