For some Illinois residents, optimism about COVID vaccines has turned into confusion and frustration over the slower-than-expected pace of inoculations, even as the state prepares to move to the next
Jamie Munks, Stacy St. Clair, Dan Petrella, Lisa Schencker and Gregory Pratt
Chicago Tribune
As the first COVID-19 vaccine administered in Illinois was plunged into Dr. Marina Del Riosâ left arm Tuesday, she thought about all the people who didnât live to see the historic day.
Her former patients. The health care workers who treated the virus and lost their lives because of it. The friend who died in the early days of the pandemic.
âI canât give you a total number of the people I know who have died or lost loved ones. Iâve stopped counting,â said Del Rios, the social emergency medicine director at the University of Illinois Hospital. âYou never want any lives to be lost, but so many at the same time weighs even heavier on you.â
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