Team I examined the question “Where are the vaccines?”
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On Monday it was nicknamed “COVID-D-Day”, after the pivotal start to the end of World War II.
Tuesday, a day later, for some Chicago suburban hospitals, the D on that day is disappointing. Because the vaccines that arrived in Illinois Monday have not yet reached their hospitals or the arms of their health care workers.
Yesterday a video of Governor JB Pritzker was seen inspecting the vaccine store while some Chicagoland hospitals were preparing for those vaccines they hoped to receive and then began inoculating their front-line staff the next day.
The governor said those hospitals had the bad impression that they would receive boxes full of dry ice vaccines to immediately begin inoculating their front-line staff.
And then there was an internal note from the University of Chicago that said, “We have not yet received the COVID-19 vaccine from the Chicago Department of Public Health, which is responsible for allocating and distributing the vaccine on the Hyde Park campus. “We continue to believe in ourselves as early as possible to begin our employee vaccination program is this Thursday afternoon. However, that may change as the vaccine arrives.”
Edward de Naperville Hospital was scheduled to begin vaccinating employees on Tuesday, but instead received notice that boarding was delayed.
“The big question is whether the cold chain will break, so the vaccine has to be stored at -80 degrees, which is basically the dry ice temperature, so if this vaccine thaws we only have 5 days to use it, it is essential that this vaccine is given quickly once it arrives because we do not know whether it will be frozen or not, “said Jonathan Pinsky, medical director of infection control at Edward Hospital.
The governor was in defense.
“They are not delayed. In fact, there was no delivery scheduled for any of them. Today, none of them have had any delays,” he said.
“I think they were overly excited not to be … they were overly excited. The IHA, the Illinois Hospital Association that worked with us and worked with their hospitals, was responsible with individual hospitals for scheduling when they would be delivered. “Some of them are definitely more excited than others, and you know, say they’ll get them when they’re not really planned,” Pritzker added.
Governor Pritzker, in his two-thirty-nine-hour daily session, promised that vaccines will be administered throughout Illinois for the next 24 to 72 hours through what he called an “excellent logistics team.”
After hospitals in the Chicago area continued to publicly point out that they have not yet received vaccine vials … about an hour later came an additional written statement from Governor Pritzker’s spokesman, who said, “Everything is planned and moving forward according to the plan “.
A press release from Edward-Elmhurst Heath sent Tuesday afternoon reported that it has been reported that it will receive shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine Thursday morning.
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