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Long-Term Care Facilities Hope to Receive First COVID Vaccines by Months End Some medical workers in the state of Illinois are already getting their coronavirus vaccines, and by the end of the month, health officials are hoping that long-term care facility residents and workers will be able to get theirs as well. During a coronavirus press briefing on Wednesday, IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike laid out some of the details of the program, which aims to get coronavirus vaccine shots to long-term ca...

Illinois Coronavirus Updates: First Doses of Vaccine Administered Across the State © Bloomberg via Getty Images A healthcare worker receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Note: Any news conferences from Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot or other officials will be streamed in the video player above. Illinois and Chicago health officials oversaw the administration of the first do...