Pastor James M. Moody Sr., senior pastor at Quinn Chapel AME Church on the South Side, accepted Rush’s invitation to get vaccinated so he can vouch for the safety. “People pay more attention to what you do then what you say.”
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In the wake of lagging efforts to vaccinate communities hit hardest by COVID-19, some of Chicago’s biggest hospitals are pursuing a mix of methods to get shots into residents of the South and West sides.
The increased focus is necessary, one advocate said, because attempts until this point have largely been a “failure.”
Advocate Health Care, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern Memorial, Rush University Medical Center, University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Chicago are among those now running programs aimed at the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods that have experienced the most virus cases and deaths.
CDC-funded study launches to look at COVID-19 long-haulers
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CHICAGO â A year since it first emerged in the U.S., scientists have learned a lot about the novel coronavirus and how to treat it. But there is still much unknown about its long-term effects on the health of COVID-19 survivors. Now, a CDC-funded effort is underway to try and understand what life going forward will be like for long-haulers.
Carlos Olvera had to be hospitalized three times during his bout with COVID-19.
âIt had been already over a month and it was part of protocol to get me tested again, and it turned out that I was positive on that third hospitalization,â he recalled.
Illustrative: A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection in Jerusalem, on January 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
JTA The email offered what felt like a lifeline to the dozens of rabbis in the Chicago area who received it last week. “Vaccines are now available for clergy,” an official with the Chicago Board of Rabbis wrote, passing along a link to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Days later, some of those rabbis were rolling up their sleeves to get the shot that would start to make their pre-pandemic lives possible once again. Lizzi Heydemann, rabbi and founder of Mishkan, a nondenominational congregation in Chicago, marked her vaccination with a public Facebook post accompanied by a translation of the Shehecheyanu prayer: “That we lived and stood up and reached this time.”