Illinois administered 82,449 coronavirus vaccine doses Tuesday, public health officials reported Wednesday, bringing the total to 2,900,341 nationwide.
The number of Illinois residents who have been fully vaccinated – receiving both shots as needed – has reached 906,490 or 7.11% of the total population.
Government’s J.B. Pritzker announced that the state would open mass vaccination sites in Des Plains and Quincy on Thursday. The sites are expected to administer a combined 4,000 doses per day when at full capacity.
Also, Chicago is getting another mass vaccination site. Chicago Cubs and advocate ur Rora Health said Tuesday they are partnering on a plan to administer the COVID-19 vaccine at Wrigley Field.
Advocates and Chicago Cubs have confirmed that they are working to bring the country’s third-largest city to the second mass inoculation center at Regleville’s Buppark as tens of thousands of people are still waiting for their first dose under current eligibility requirements.
Meanwhile, residents aged 65 and over, United Center, the city’s first mass vaccination site, capable of inoculating 6,000 people a day, could begin hiring on Thursday for the shot. The site will open next week.
Officials also said Illinois is expected to receive more than 100,000 doses of the recently approved Johnson and Johnson vaccine this week. State officials said more than 0% of its supply of 83,000 doses will be distributed at mass vaccination sites. The city of Chicago, which receives its own supply of vaccines, receives 22,300 doses.
Illinois public health officials on Wednesday confirmed 2,104 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 44 additional deaths. The epidemic has led to a total of 1,191,520 cases and 20,626 deaths in the state since its onset.
Here’s what’s happening Wednesday with the COVID-19 in the Chicago area and Illinois:
4:25 pm: Film and TV crew spend less in Illinois due to coronavirus, but ‘2021 looks like it’s going to be a very strong year’.
Filmmakers, TV networks and commercial advertising teams spent far less money in Illinois last year than in 2001 and hired nearly half, thanks to months of production shutdowns caused by the coronavirus, but officials said Wednesday they would return to the local film industry. watching. At the level of pre-epidemic production.
“2021 looks like it’s going to be a very strong year,” Peter Haley Wally, director of the Illinois Film Office Fees, told a virtual news conference. “We are at the same level as we were in our record-breaking year 2019. We are almost exactly where we were in 2020 – which was becoming a gangbuster year for us – at this time before the epidemic. We are also starting to see a lot of jobs coming back. “
3:45 p.m .: What happens to the vaccine dose when people miss an appointment? Is the dose being spent?
Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. All. According to Allison Arwadi, the vaccine dose is not being spent. Meanwhile a March 2 news conference, She said, the same question she often gets.
After the Pfizer vaccine melts for use, Arwadi said, six doses of the vial should be given within five days. For 10 doses of Moderna vaccine in one vial, it is 30 days. She said there are many behind-the-scenes plans to make sure all vaccines are used – from waiting lists to putting missed visits back to zocdoc.com/vaccine, to day vaccinating workers and volunteers at Chicago vaccination sites.
“I want people to hear that there is no vaccine,” he said. “At the city level, when we move the vaccine forward, we will push a one-day vaccine to use it at places we know will use it at the beginning of the day. The way we allocate vaccines in Chicago and the way people just pull the vaccine out of the freezers every week, we provide the vaccine there, where people can say, ‘Here’s how much I’ve been assigned this week.’ And they have to show that they are using 85% or more of their appointments every week. “
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(Update) 2:59 pm: O Hare vaccination sites open for transport workers including CATA, Metra, Uber drivers, flight crew
Transport workers ranging from train operators to rideshare drivers will be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine at new delivery locations at O’Hare International Airport, with some airline employees receiving the shot from Thursday.
The vaccination site at the Hilton Chicago O’Hare Airport Hotel is open to all transport workers, who will be able to get 2,500 vaccinations per week, said Matt McGraw, a spokesman for the Chicago Department of Aviation. To add capacity, O’Hare’s largest airlines, United Airlines and American Airlines, will run separate airport vaccination sites for their employees and contractors.
All O’Rourke sites will administer Johnson and Johnson vaccine doses received from the Chicago Department of Public Health.
O’Hare said the Hilton site, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s departure, would begin vaccinating first responders and security personnel on Friday before increasing access access on Monday. All employees at O’Hare and Midway airports, including those who do not work for airlines, Metra, CTA and Pace employees, taxi drivers and ridershare drivers who live or work in Chicago will also be eligible.
2:36 pm: Two pharmacists in Decatur fired one after taking one of the COVID-19 vaccine family, showing improperly mixed doses, emails
Two pharmacists from the Memorial Health System were brought home in December for the members of the Quaid-19 vaccine at the system’s Dectur Hospital and two pharmacists from the Memorial Health System were fired, according to newly released emails from the public health department.
According to an email sent to federal officials Jan. 20 from Heidi Clark, head of the state Department of Health’s Infectious Diseases Department, a pharmacist was “taking home doses at the end of the day and giving them to his family.” According to the email, the pharmacist at Dectur Memorial Hospital pulled the dose into Pfizer’s vials to draw more than six doses of the vaccine.
Angie Muhs, a spokeswoman for Memorial Health Systems, confirmed in an email that one of the pharmacists had switched to two doses. Family members of the pharmacist were not eligible for the vaccine at the time, he said.
He declined to answer a question about the involvement of other pharmacists in the incident.
12:49 pm: More than 2.9 million doses of vaccination are given in Illinois as the state prepares for two new vaccination sites
Illinois administered 82,449 coronavirus vaccine doses Tuesday, public health officials reported Wednesday, bringing the total to 2,900,341 nationwide.
The number of Illinois residents who have been fully vaccinated – receiving both shots as needed – has reached 906,490 or 7.11% of the total population.
In the last seven days, the state daily average for vaccinations was 84,202.
12:09 pm: 2,104 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases and 44 additional deaths reported
Health officials in Illinois on Wednesday announced 2,104 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 44 additional deaths, bringing the number of known infections in Illinois to 1,191,520 and statewide deaths to 20,626 since the onset of the epidemic.
Officials also recorded 80,854 new tests in the last 24 hours. The seven-day statewide test positivity rate for the period ending Tuesday was 2.9%.
10:29 a.m .: Stimulus Check Updates: Biden, Senate Democrats agree to receive COVID-19 relief check for 80 80,000
President John Biden and Democrats agreed Wednesday to tighten the aforementioned income limits on which people could be eligible for a stimulus investigation, a Democrat official said, as party leaders prepare to move their $ 1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill through the Senate. Great relief.
The Senate Democrats plan to unveil the Covid-19 relief measures, they will also include 400 weekly emergency employment benefits in the House-approved version of the law, the official said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the internal Democratic conversation.
Changes have come with Republicans, who can unanimously oppose the law and hit the bill as an overly expensive democratic wish list that helps many people who don’t really need it.
In the 0-50 Senate, where Democrats should remain united, party moderators are pushing for more to be spent on the cost of illness, the damage caused by the epidemic and the economic downturn.
6 a.m .: Epidemic crush crushing. Here are 5 tips to help you get a better shut-eye.
This epidemic has affected everything, so it is no surprise that it has also disrupted our sleep.
We worry about everyone in our lives, we drink a lot of alcohol and coffee, and even when we are in bed, we often do not feel good quality sleep.
These are just a few of the reasons why psychologist Michael Bruce notes that it makes perfect sense that people are having trouble sleeping. Studies during the epidemic have uncovered insomnia and other sleep issues.
“We just aren’t able to handle this level of stress, and of course it only comes out in sleep,” Bruce said.
- Waking up at the same time every day
- Set the cutoff for caffeine and booze
- Exit for exercise
- Improve your sleep space
- Plan to go back to sleep and not look at the clock
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