Tim Shelley / Peoria Public Radio
Peoria County is currently administering around 8,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses a month. But all the pieces are in place to drastically upscale that operation--if only more supply was available.
"If we got anywhere between 10 to 15,000 doses a week, between our health department, the two hospital systems, and our federally-qualified health center, we would be able to support that," said Peoria City/County Health Department Administrator Monica Hendrickson. "That just shows you that we're prepared and have logisitics in place to do a large-scale operation."
The problem remains vaccine supply.
Currently, the county is administering around 2,000 doses a week. As of Wednesday, just more than 3% of Peoria County's population was fully immunized against the coronavirus.