National Guard coming to McHenry County Wednesday to boost vaccination effort
Two teams of Illinois National Guard members are being deployed to McHenry County to help with COVID-19 vaccinations.
Matthew Apgar/Shaw Media
Updated 3/17/2021 11:13 AM
Two teams of Illinois National Guard members will be deployed to McHenry County -- a mobile unit arriving Wednesday will be used, in part, to vaccinate local manufacturing employees, and a stationary unit arriving at the end of the month will staff clinics supervised by the county health department.
In providing this support, the state requires the health department run vaccine clinics six days a week including weekends, meaning clinics will be offered Tuesday through Sunday for the duration of the National Guard's six-to-eight-week stay, Public Health Nursing Director Susan Karras said in an interview Tuesday.