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A southern Indiana couple brought their 4- and 5-year-old children to Walgreens to receive the flu shot earlier this month, but instead, the young kids were.
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Walgreens on Monday said it planned to change the COVID vaccine scheduler on its website following complaints that the pharmacy wasn t adhering to federal health officials recommended timeline for some second doses.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that the two doses for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine be spaced three weeks, or 21 days, apart. That timeframe is shorter than the recommended space between the two doses of Moderna s vaccine, which is 28 days or one month. Get the answer to your most-asked COVID vaccine questions on our mobile NBC 5 Chicago app. Download it here for iOS or Android.
We are committed to honoring vaccination appointments that have been scheduled in our system, and our team members are reaching out to all patients affected to attempt to accommodate them, the company continued. If supply does not allow us to vaccinate some of these patients, we will prioritize them for appointments as additional vaccine inventory is available. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The company did not respond to multiple requests on how many people the glitch impacted, though hundreds of members of the Chicago Vaccine Hunters Facebook group posted and commented that they were experiencing that same issue.
Users have repeatedly complained about the Walgreens appointment sign-up process, some on social media calling the latest glitch a mess and so frustrating.
IDPH is reporting a total of 1,166,717 total COVID-19 cases, including 20,057 deaths.
As of Tuesday night, 1,719 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 375 patients were in the ICU and 176 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity from Feb. 10-16 is 3.4%.
A total of 2,029,675 doses of vaccine have been delivered to providers in Illinois, including Chicago, with an additional 445,200 doses allocated to federal government partners for long-term care facilities, bringing the total number delivered in Illinois to 2,474,875.
The IDPH said that vaccine distribution numbers are reported in real-time and vaccine administration numbers lag by as much as 72 hours.