CHICAGO (WLS) It s been almost a week since the first front-line responders in Chicago received their first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. ABC7 asked several Chicago area health care workers to keep a video diary to explain what you can expect after receiving the COVID-19 vaccination.
Rush University Medicine emergency room nurse Bill Knietz got his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine nearly a week ago. I m doing great. I m feeling fine. Had that minor setback on Friday with a headache, but after a little bit it went away and I haven t had anything since, Knietz said.
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Advances in neuroscience and engineering have generated great hope for Luke Skywalker-like prosthetics: robotic devices that are almost indistinguishable from a human limb. Key to solving this challenge is designing devices that not only can be operated with a user s own neural activity, but can also accurately and precisely receive and relay sensory information to the user.
A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and Chalmers University of Technology, published on December 22 in the journal
Cell Reports, highlights just how difficult this may prove to be. In a cohort of three subjects whose amputated limbs had been replaced with neuromusculoskeletal prosthetic limbs, the investigators found that even after a full year of using the devices, the participant s subjective sensation never shifted to match the location of the touch sensors on their prosthetic devices.
Published December 20, 2020, 8:37 PM
2 nurses in the US and a nurse in the UK talk about the experience of being among the first to get vaccinated.
While many people are skeptical about the COVID vaccine, nurse Riza Raquion believes that it is the only way to end the pandemic and slowly put people’s lives back to normal.
Richie Gil, a critical care nurse who is married to a nurse, said: ‘I have long been waiting for this moment to come after enduring 10 months of risking our lives being exposed to COVID-19 patients.
Gil and his wife availed of the early vaccination to protect their three young children and aging in-laws.
More Chicago area hospitals begin administering COVID vaccine
CHICAGO - Rush University Medical Center wrapped up giving
coronavirus vaccinations on Thursday around 10 pm.
The Chicago hospital received its first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine in the morning and planned to have nearly 500 healthcare workers vaccinated by the evening.
The long-awaited moment was marked with applause at Rush. At about 2:45 pm, ten frontline workers received the first shots.
Among them was nurse practitioner Erik McIntosh. I really felt very patriotic because I felt like I was doing something for my country, McIntosh said.
The highly anticipated Pfizer vaccines arrived at 9:30 am. Rush says it received 1,950 doses in its first shipment.
Chicago Fire Department Paramedic Dies of COVID-19
A third member of the Chicago Fire Department has died from COVID-19.
Paramedic Robert Truevillian, who joined the department in 2000, died from complications of the virus, Chicago fire officials said Thursday in a statement posted to Twitter.
Truevillian was assigned to ambulance 71, which operates out of the firehouse at 10458 S. Hoxie Ave. in South Deering, officials said.
He’s the third active CFD member to die from complications of the coronavirus.
Illinois Reports 8,828 New Coronavirus Cases, 181 Additional Deaths Thursday
According to the latest data from the Illinois Department of Public Health, Thursday s figures bring the total number cases of the virus to 879,428 statewide and lifted the death toll to 14,835 since the pandemic began.