A clinic on campus provided 153 people with COVID-19 vaccinations and more than 310 people with flu shots, according to Hillsdale Hospital Pharmacy Director Jeff Kauffman. The clinic, which took place at the Searle Center, was sponsered by the hospital. It offered free shots to students, staff, faculty, and local residents. The clinic required registration...
As the coronavirus spreads across the globe, media outlets have focused their attention on the little-known disease. The 2019 Novel coronavirus, a strand of coronavirus related to SARS and MERS, has infected more than 24,000 people around the world as of Wednesday, killing nearly 500. Twelve residents in the United States have fallen ill. Because...
This year marks a full century since the 1918 worldwide influenza pandemic, during which four World War I Hillsdale student draftees came down with the flu. That epidemic was not the worst Hillsdale has seen, however. While the college was not widely harmed by this outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus, it was severely affected...
Following a 2017-18 influenza season classified as “high severity” by the Centers for Disease Control, Hillsdale Hospital is hosting a free flu-vaccine clinic in the TV room of Hillsdale College’s Grewcock Student Union this week. The hospital has offered the service annually for about four years. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, five...
Although flu cases on campus have slowed down, the virus is still going strong in Hillsdale. Will Carleton Academy was closed for four days last week, and the Hillsdale Hospital numbers have remained stagnant. “We know we had 29 cases confirmed,” Director of Will Carleton Academy Colleen Vogt said. Twelve students were sent home...