Benjamin Pollard/1470-100.3 WMBD
PEORIA, Ill. The Peoria City/County Health Department provided more information on its vaccination distribution plan Thursday as Illinois surpassed one million COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
The Illinois Department of Public Health released its version 4.0 of its vaccination plan that further clarifies group 1A and helps with planning towards vaccinating group 1B, according to Public Health Administrator Monica Hendrickson.
Entities whose staff and residents who qualify for tier 1A include hospitals, medical outpatient, public health clinics, local health departments’ point of dispensing, federal qualified health centers and long-term care facilities, said Hendrickson.
Screenshot from video provided by Gov. J.B. Pritzker s office
Originally published on December 15, 2020 1:51 pm
When Gov. JB Pritzker observes COVID-19 vaccines administered at a Peoria hospital on Tuesday morning, he’ll be witnessing among the first COVID-19 inoculations in Illinois after the state received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech.
The state received 48,000 doses of the vaccine on Monday about half what the state is expecting this week.
Pritzker on Monday said the vaccines’ arrival marked “the beginning of the end of the pandemic,” though it will be many months before all Illinoisans who want a COVID-19 vaccine are able to get one.