The hospital was chosen because of the care it has provided to the communities most affected by the virus.
On Monday night, Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted photos of the vaccine’s arrival in the city. These doses will be distributed to 34 hospitals in Chicago, including Loretto in the Austin neighborhood, where the mortality rate for COVID-19 is more than 60% higher than the citywide average.
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Officials said the first shots in Illinois will be given to health care workers.
Loretto will be the first hospital in the city at 10:30 a.m. to begin inoculating its staff. Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke about the historic launch on MSNBC Monday night.
“We see the light at the end of the tunnel, but we’re not out of the tunnel yet,” Lightfoot said.
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Due to the ultra-cold storage requirement of the Pfizer vaccine and the limited time between thawing and injection, hospitals have carefully developed deployment plans … designed to prevent waste and any disruption to patient care.
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You have to think about the potential of these side effects, so you might not take everyone to the COVID apartment and you would do them all at once, ”said Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health.
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