Iliana Mora, chief administration officer for Cook County Health’s Ambulatory Services, said the Forest Park facility alone is equipped to give out 1,300 doses a day.
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5:00 p.m. COVID-19 cases on the rise as Illinois continues to dole out vaccines at record pace
Illinois is seeing a troubling upward trend in coronavirus cases as the state continues to vaccinate residents at a record pace.
State health officials on Sunday announced 2,942 new and probable COVID-19 cases and an additional 16 virus-related deaths.
The new cases were detected among 69,600 tests processed by the Illinois Department of Public Health in the last day. That keeps the statewide seven-day positivity rate at a 10-week high of 4.2%.
Illinois is averaging about 3,204 new cases each day this month, up sharply from the first 11 days of last month when the state recorded a daily average of 1,610.
3:54 p.m. Third straight record-breaking COVID-19 vaccination day sends Illinois shot total past 7 million
People get doses of a COVID-19 vaccine at Cook County’s Forest Park Community Vaccination Site at 7630 Roosevelt Rd. in Forest Park, Thursday morning, April 8, 2021.
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After a third straight record-breaking COVID-19 vaccination day for Illinois, more than 7 million shots have now gone into arms statewide, officials announced Saturday.
A total of 175,681 doses were administered Friday, surpassing the state’s previous high set a day earlier by more than 11,000 shots, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Almost four months into the unprecedented nationwide vaccination effort, the state’s overall shot tally is up to 7,047,326.
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COVID-19 vaccine providers will open 150,000 appointments across the Chicago suburbs next week when eligibility expands to all Illinois residents 16 or older, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday.
Chicago residents can snap up some of those suburban slots since the city won’t make adult vaccine eligibility universal until April 19 and they’re “absolutely” encouraged to do so, as the entire state faces a third coronavirus surge, Pritzker said.
“We now need to get as many shots into arms as quickly as we possibly can,” the governor said at a west suburban Forest Park mass vaccination site. “We’re reserving some vaccine to make sure we’re targeting particularly vulnerable groups that aren’t fully vaccinated yet, but right now we just want people to show up and get vaccinated as soon as possible.