PEORIA Frontline workers lined up down a long hallway leading to the Morron Room at UnityPoint Health-Methodist as the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered there late Wednesday afternoon.
This comes on the heels of the area s first vaccine doses administered Tuesday morning at OSF HealthCare St. Francis Medical Center.
Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the state s projected shipment of Pfizer vaccines will likely be cut in half this month, he was informed by federal government officials on Wednesday.
No reason was given for the shortfall, Pritzker said.
“Everybody at every level of government cares deeply about making sure that we’re protecting as many people as quickly as we can, so I don’t want to express frustration with this, said Pritzker, noting that the rollout is a huge logistical process and that other states are in the same predicament.