Rock Island County Health Department

The Rock Island County Health Department wants people to help prevent COVID, the flu, and other respiratory illnesses this fall and winter.

The conronavirus continues to kill residents of the Quad Cities area.

Total COVID-19 deaths and cases have increased dramatically this month in the Quad Cities. Hospitals are full of infected patients, and recovery takes weeks.

Hospitals in the Quad Cities are overflowing with patients, and health officials are asking everyone to help by getting vaccinated against COVID-19 and wearing masks in public, indoor places.

Here's a look at recent COVID statistics for Rock Island County.

Options are becoming available for 5-to-11-year-olds to get free, COVID-19 vaccinations. (Updated: see below.)

On Friday, the Rock Island County Health Department will start giving third Pfizer injections to those who are eligible.

COVID-19 continues to cause increases in deaths and hospitalizations in the Illinois Quad Cities. Here are the latest numbers.

After three months in operation, the mass vaccination site in Milan will close this weekend. On Saturday at 4 p.m., state-sponsored nurses will administer their last doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Rock Island County and most of Illinois Region 2 continue to be at a warning level for COVID-19. And so far this month, more local residents have died…