COVID-19 mass vaccination clinics were closed today in Aurora and Elgin after Illinois discontinued use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine "out of an abundance of caution" regarding blood clots in six women who d had shots. There are no known cases of serious side effects from the vaccine in Illinois, a Chicago official said.
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Nearly half of new coronavirus infections nationwide are in just five states – a situation that is putting pressure on the federal government to consider changing how it distributes vaccines by sending more doses to hot spots.
New York, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey together reported 44% of the nation’s new COVID-19 infections, or nearly 197,500 new cases, in the latest available seven-day period, according to state health agency data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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Cook Co. sees COVID cases quadruple in some areas
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Illinois public health officials reported 2,931 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 13 related deaths Tuesday.
There have been 1,261,667 total cases, including 21,395 deaths in the state.
All Chicagoans 16 and older will be vaccine eligible on April 19, but matching that White House timeline still puts the city a week behind much of the rest of Illinois. We re seeing cases in younger people, and so this has been. we absolutely, we follow the data. We follow the science, and it s about wanting to make shifts, said Dr. Allison Arwady, Chicago Dept. of Public Health.
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A new mass COVID vaccination site is launching in suburban Elgin Wednesday, open to all eligible Illinois residents, with the capacity to administer hundreds of doses of vaccine each day.
The new site is at Elgin’s Eastside Recreational Center, located at 1080 East Chicago Street, and will be run through a partnership between Kane County and the state of Illinois, with National Guard assistance, and in collaboration with Cook County and the city of Elgin. Get the answer to your most-asked COVID vaccine questions on our mobile NBC 5 Chicago app. Download it here for iOS or Android.