The Springfield area’s first mass-vaccination site to inoculate against COVID-19 opened Wednesday on the Illinois State Fairgrounds for people 65 and older and others in the state s high-priority groups.
Gov. JB Pritzker’s office confirmed to The State Journal-Register late Tuesday that the Illinois National Guard will work with the Sangamon County Department of Public Health to operate the appointment-only site inside the Orr Building on the fairgrounds for the foreseeable future.
Appointments for an initial 600 doses per day began Wednesday morning for people in the state’s 1A and 1B priority categories, which includes people 65 and older and people younger than 65 who serve as “essential workers” in places such as grocery stores and factories.
Mass vaccination site opens at state fairgrounds
Angela Bauer, abauer@myjournalcourier.com
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The state is opening a mass vaccination site in the Orr Building at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield.
The site will be able to administer up to 1,620 doses of COVID-19 vaccine daily with a beginning weekly allocation of 4,000 doses, according to Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
The site, which now is serving those eligible under Phase 1A and Phase 1B by appointment, will ramp up to full capacity as federal vaccine shipments increase, he said.
“While supply remains limited across the nation, here in Illinois we are building out a robust vaccine infrastructure to ensure we can reach all of our residents as quickly as possible,” Pritzker said in a release. “As Illinois and other states across the nation await additional vaccine supply from the federal government, every Illinoisan can continue do their part to fight this virus by following public health guidance an
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