This super site will allow the city to give a boost to protect health workers against COVID-19. The site will only focus on non-hospital health workers and will need an appointment. It is not open to the public.
Chicago Department of Health commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady described herself as one of the health workers who sees patients but does not connect with a hospital. Dr. Arwady was vaccinated at Malcolm X College and said she was delighted to be vaccinated.
Before the supermarket, the city reserved the vaccine for hospital staff. However, public health officials began distributing vaccines to nursing homes and community health workers on Monday.
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As part of Chicago’s approach to equity, some of the first doses of Modern vaccine were given to Esperanza Health in Brighton Park, a neighborhood with a test positivity rate that exceeds twice the average all the city.
“Some parts of the Latinx community are still in crisis and I want to make sure we don’t lose sight of it,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.
The Wentworth Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Englewood was the first long-term care center in Chicago to receive COVID-19 vaccines, as the city continues to reassure minority communities that the vaccine is safe. .
Dr. Arwady said health workers and long-term care facilities will continue to receive the vaccine throughout January and probably most of February. In the spring, vaccination will be moved to older Chicago people and essential workers.
More than 20,000 vaccines have been administered to health workers at Chicago hospitals.
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