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The Winnebago County Health Department announced the delay Tuesday via a news release, which states: There is a limited number of vaccines available for the entire state. Each county is limited in the amount they can get, and the state is limited in the amount that it receives. The delay in shipments will affect the roughly 6,700 patients in Winnebago County who were originally scheduled for their second dose this week. As a result, all three hospitals are awaiting further information on vaccine availability and will contact patients to reschedule their second dose when vaccines become available to them. The delay is expected to last about a week, the health department said Tuesday evening, updating its previous release. ....
That’s not blarney, folks. The Irish Marching Society will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on March 13 with a nontraditional driving parade through some of the city’s busiest thoroughfares. The event will launch at 3 p.m. from the parking lot next to Don Carter Lanes on East State Street and will include two separate parade routes, according to Marching Society president Danny McDade. “This is the one and only driving parade we’ll have,” McDade said, noting last year s parade and Paddyfest were scrubbed by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I want to draw attention to the fact that we are still here and have not given up.” ....
ROCKFORD Sunil Puri s phone rang a little after 10 a.m. on a Thursday. On the other end was Mayor Tom McNamara, who was scrambling to find a site for the Illinois National Guard to mobilize a mass vaccination center and figured the developer could offer advice, if not property. The city had spent the past few days searching for suitable locations, but on that Thursday morning, it learned the owners of the two sites it had in mind planned to charge $15,000 and $25,000 per month for a lease. That was just not doable, McNamara said. About 24 hours after calling Puri on Feb. 18, the city had a lease for its mass vaccination site. The fastest time to complete a lease his company had ever done, Puri said. But this lease would only cost $1. ....