Hospitals across Illinois have already received a number of vaccines for health care workers.Â
Before the end of the year a projected total of 507,728 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will have been distributed to frontline health care workers. This includes 187,128 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 320,600 of the Moderna vaccine.Â
A projected total of 74,100 doses will have been sent to long term care residents and staff by the end of the year. All of those vaccines are Pfizer.Â
IDPH stressed the numbers are not final and the number of doses we receive could change this week and next week.Â
In the first week of distribution, the focus was on hospital workers.Â
Screenshot from video provided by Gov. J.B. Pritzker s office
Originally published on December 15, 2020 1:51 pm
When Gov. JB Pritzker observes COVID-19 vaccines administered at a Peoria hospital on Tuesday morning, he’ll be witnessing among the first COVID-19 inoculations in Illinois after the state received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech.
The state received 48,000 doses of the vaccine on Monday about half what the state is expecting this week.
Pritzker on Monday said the vaccines’ arrival marked “the beginning of the end of the pandemic,” though it will be many months before all Illinoisans who want a COVID-19 vaccine are able to get one.