HOOPESTON Some of the first doses of the new single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in the local area will be coming to Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center to
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Dr. Jay Norris, MD, and anesthesiologist at OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center, receives the first Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday afternoon from occupational health nurse Julia Randolph, RN.
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Mandy Davis, a pharmacist with OSF prepares a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for the first patient Wednesday afternoon.
The first shipments of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Vermilion County Wednesday morning and vaccinations began at local health-care facilities by Wednesday afternoon.
Douglas Toole, public health administrator for the Vermilion County Health Department, said the shipment to the health department contained 500 doses of vaccine as well as the necessary syringes, alcohol prep-pads, PPE and vaccination reminder cards.
CHAMPAIGN â While Champaign County was poised to receive its third COVID-19 vaccine shipment soon, Vermilion County had yet to receive a single dose.
âOur understanding is if we did not have it by the 24th, it would have been here yesterday,â Doug Toole, administrator of the Vermilion County Health Department, said Tuesday of that countyâs first vaccine shipment.
As of Tuesday afternoon: Still no vaccine in Vermilion County, he said.
With health care personnel first in line statewide for COVID-19 vaccinations, neither of Vermilion Countyâs hospitals â OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center and Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center â had received vaccines for its staff members.