Emily Hendrickson Clinic Director Memorial Medical Clinic

Emily Hendrickson, Director of Clinic Operations at Memorial Medical Clinics, joined MacombNewsNow.com for a conversation about the rising rates of COVID-19 in McDonough and Hancock County. The rising hospitalization rate can be directly attributed to the fact that McDonough and Hancock County are lagging behind the rest of the state of Illinois in terms of the percentage of residents vaccinated. Both counties are under 40% of eligible residents that are vaccinated and it's causing a brand new outbreak of COVID-19 via the dangerous and more transmissible Delta Variant. Worse yet, if the vaccination rate doesn't go up, it creates more opportunity for the virus to continue to mutate and become even more dangerous. The message is clear, GET VACCINATED.