Posted12/20/2020 12:00 PM
The COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the suburbs, people continued to give their time to those in need, and the Daily Herald named it s annual holiday lights contest winners in The Week in Pictures for December 12-18, 2020.
Steve Mosias, left, of Palatine and Jim Bethke of Elgin, were among those who came to pay their respects to Marine Corps and Vietnam veteran Stephen Alan Myerson at Laird Funeral Home in Elgin Tuesday. Myerson had no known family when he died Sept. 11 at the Citadel Care Center in Elgin.
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Respiratory Therapist Aminderjit (Andy) Dhanoa, 37, gets the first COVID-19 vaccination at Edward Hospital in Naperville Thursday afternoon from RN Nikki Carini-Wardecki.
The I-Team looked into the question of Where are the vaccines?
Monday was nicknamed COVID-D-Day, after the pivotal beginning of the end of World War Two.
By Tuesday, a day later for some suburban Chicago hospitals, the D in this day is disappointment. Because the vaccines that arrived in Illinois Monday have not yet arrived at their hospitals, or into the arms of their health care workers.
Yesterday, there was video of Governor JB Pritzker inspecting the vaccine warehouse while some hospitals across Chicagoland were preparing for those vaccines-expecting to receive and then begin inoculating their front line workforce the next day.