Aetna Offering Free Weekend-Long COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic in East Garfield Park A COVID-19 vaccine clinic will be held this weekend at the JLM Abundant Life Community Center in East Garfield Park
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This weekend Aetna is offering a free, walk in COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Chicago s East Garfield Park neighborhood.
Aetna will host a free, weekend-long walk-in vaccine clinic to all at no cost from May 21 to May 23, according to a press release. Don t miss local breaking news and weather! Download our mobile app for iOS or Android and sign up for alerts.
”There’s a lot more related to mixing that vaccine, you have to use saline, it s generally done by pharmacists or people with more training, it s not an ideal setting for an outpatient setting.”
Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines have been circulating across the U.S., both requiring two shots for full protection and according to an analysis by U.S. regulators, Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine also offers strong protection against severe COVID-19.
But as more Johnson & Johnson vaccines become available in Illinois, Moderna remains the easiest to distribute, particularly to outpatient providers.
“Moderna has really been the one vaccine that s been useful for all of these outpatient settings which, from my standpoint is really where the money is in terms of getting vaccine to go into neighborhoods to smaller providers and Johnson and Johnson now coming in only has to be refrigerated,” Arwady said.
CHICAGO (WLS) Chicago health officials updated the city s COVID vaccine distribution plan Wednesday, with March 29 set as the date the city will begin vaccinating residents in the Phase 1C group.
In 1C, more essential workers are eligible, including those in hospitality, construction, law, banking and media, as are Chicagoans 16 to 64 with serious health conditions.
It s been twelve weeks since the first vaccine shot was administered in the City of Chicago. Currently, one in four adults have received at least their first dose. With supplies on the increase, Mayor Lightfoot made it official: soon a lot more people will be eligible to roll up their sleeves.
CHICAGO (WLS) Chicago health officials updated the city s COVID vaccine distribution plan Wednesday, with March 29 set as the date the city will begin vaccinating residents in the Phase 1C group.
In 1C, more essential workers are eligible, including those in hospitality, construction, law, banking and media, as are Chicagoans 16 to 64 with serious health conditions.
It s been twelve weeks since the first vaccine shot was administered in the City of Chicago. Currently, one in four adults have received at least their first dose. With supplies on the increase, Mayor Lightfoot made it official: soon a lot more people will be eligible to roll up their sleeves.
CHICAGO (WLS) The first person reported to have died from COVID-19 in Illinois lived in Auburn Gresham.
A year later it is one of the city s most hard-hit communities in terms of both human loss and economic impact.
In February of 2020 a former Save-A-Lot closed its doors to the public. A couple months later it has found a new purpose as a food and PPE distribution center as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. All of our work which we ve done for nearly 20 years is now focused on saving lives and addressing the impact that COVID-19 has had on our community, said Carlos Nelson with the Greater Auburn Gresham Development Group.