COVID-19 vaccinations begin at University of Chicago Medicine
Dec 18, 2020 First employees inoculated, with thousands more to be scheduled over next several weeks
The University of Chicago Medicine began inoculating frontline staff against the virus that causes COVID-19 on Dec. 17, following delivery of 1,950 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from the Chicago Department of Public Health.
A diverse group of frontline employees including a resident physician, a pulmonologist, a nuclear medicine technician, an operating room technician, a nurse manager and a radiation oncology patient service representative were in the first group to get vaccinated.
“COVID-19 has been such a wrecking ball,” said Howard J. Halpern, a radiation oncologist. “To find the possibility at this point, the dear hope this is going to pass us by finally, is a monumental experience. This is historically important. This vaccine is the first step a step I want us
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Below are local hospital capacity rates and their number of daily COVID-19 patients based on a seven-day average:
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Users can also look up county and statewide hospitalization rates, in addition to info on their local hospital:
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In DuPage County, hospitals are 74 percent full
In Grundy County, hospitals are 59 percent full
In Cook County, hospitals are 70 percent full
In Kane County, hospitals are 64 percent full
In McHenry County, hospitals are 54 percent full
In Lake County, hospitals are 65 percent full
Below are local hospital capacity rates and their number of daily COVID-19 patients based on a seven-day average:
Advocate South Suburban Hospital 60 percent full, treating an average of 24 percent of COVID-19 patients
Ingalls Memorial Hospital 85 percent full, treating an average of 32 percent of COVID-19 patients