COVID vaccine: Chicago opens vaccinations to all residents 16 and older Monday ABC 7 Chicago Digital Team
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Monday is a big day for COVID-19 vaccinations in Chicago as the city joins the rest of Illinois in allowing anyone 16 and older to get vaccinated.
Health officials say they still don t have enough doses for everyone who wants one. They re telling people to be patient. Opening vaccine eligibility to all adults in Chicago is another important milestone in our goal of vaccinating everyone, and moving past the pandemic to reopen our city safely, said Mayor Lori Lightfoot. I encourage everyone to get vaccinated, and everyone who wants a vaccine will receive one, but I want to remind people to be patient in getting an appointment, since our vaccine supply is still very limited.
Chicago COVID-19 vaccines: Adults age 16 and older eligible starting Monday Chicago COVID-19 vaccines: Adults age 16 and older eligible starting Monday
The City of Chicago will move to Phase 2 of COVID-19 vaccine eligibility on April 19, meaning all Chicagoans age 16 or older are eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19. To date, more than 1 million Chicago residents have received at least one dose of vaccine nearly half of the City’s adult population.
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“Opening vaccine eligibility to all adults in Chicago is another important milestone in our goal of vaccinating everyone, and moving past the pandemic to reopen our city safely,” said Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot. “I encourage everyone to get vaccinated, and everyone who wants a vaccine will receive one, but I want to remind people to be patient in getting an appointment, since our vaccine supply is still very limited.”
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Monday marked the start of the fourth academic quarter and for the first time in 11 months all 515 of Chicago’s non-charter schools including high schools were open for in-person learning.
With 36% of high schoolers and nearly half of elementary school students planning to return, Chicago Public Schools could have up to 44% of its 279,000 students at non-charter schools in classrooms this week. Those 122,000 students would be by far the most since the start of the pandemic, although the 157,000 continuing remotely still represents a number larger than all but 15 districts in the nation.
About 26,000 high school students opted to return to in-person learning. Only three schools all selective enrollment will see a majority return, while half of the district’s 93 schools will welcome about one-third of students.
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More than 8 million COVID-19 vaccine shots have now gone into the arms of Illinoisans, state health officials announced Sunday, as Chicago prepares to expand eligibility to all adults, beginning Monday.
Since mid-December, Illinois has doled out 8,054,634 coronavirus vaccines, including another 115,330 doses Saturday.
Of that, just over 3,330,000 million people in Illinois are fully vaccinated, meaning two weeks removed from their final dose, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health’s website. That’s about 26% of the state’s population well under the 80% needed for herd immunity.
Illinois boasts a seven-day rolling average of vaccines doled out daily of 125,146.
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The smell of fresh Middle Eastern cuisine wafted through the air below the Kennedy Expressway Thursday, past a row of tents, lines of cars and several members of local community groups who came out to lend a hand to the area’s homeless.
Georgia Doty Comprehensive Health and Zakat Foundation of America, teamed up to bring the warm meal, as well as groceries, sanitary products and PPE to those who live under the overpass near West Fullerton Avenue in Bucktown.
Don Doty, president and CEO of Georgia Doty Comprehensive Health, was at Thursday’s food distribution on Thursday.