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
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Some lawmakers put aside partisan politics this past week to show that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and to encourage people to get it.
Early Friday morning, Vice President Mike Pence was vaccinated on a live television broadcast from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Republican Senator and majority leader Mitch McConnell got his shot a short time later, writing on Twitter that “vaccines are how we beat this virus,” according to the New York Times.
Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi was also recently vaccinated, and President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are scheduled to receive an injection on camera on Monday.
PEORIA Frontline workers lined up down a long hallway leading to the Morron Room at UnityPoint Health-Methodist as the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered there late Wednesday afternoon.
This comes on the heels of the area s first vaccine doses administered Tuesday morning at OSF HealthCare St. Francis Medical Center.
Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the state s projected shipment of Pfizer vaccines will likely be cut in half this month, he was informed by federal government officials on Wednesday.
No reason was given for the shortfall, Pritzker said.
“Everybody at every level of government cares deeply about making sure that we’re protecting as many people as quickly as we can, so I don’t want to express frustration with this, said Pritzker, noting that the rollout is a huge logistical process and that other states are in the same predicament.
Delivery of the COVID-19 Vaccine Expected This Week in Danbury
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Hearst Connecticut Media has reported that 1,950 doses of the Pfizer vaccine will be delivered to Danbury Hospital and to other Nuvance hospitals, which include Yale-New Haven, Hartford Hospital, and St. Francis Medical Center.
Hospital staff can expect to be vaccinated at least 24 hours after the vaccine arrives. Hartford Hospital received its shipment on Monday. This past Friday, the FDA approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for emergency use.
The Moderna vaccine follows Pfizer s heels, but they still need approval from the FDA, which is also expected this week. Both vaccines require two doses to work effectively. By the end of January, approximately 225,775 people will most likely receive both doses of the vaccine.