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February 22, 2021
As Latino and Black Chicagoans continue to experience the highest Covid-19 death rates in the city, they are receiving vaccinations at the lowest rate.Â
The Chicago Public Health Department (CDPH) entered its 1B vaccination phase in accordance with its vaccination plan on January 25, allowing Chicagoans over the age of 65, frontline essential workers and those living in non-healthcare residential settings to register for the vaccine.Â
But data from the Illinois Comprehensive Automated Immunization Registry Exchange (I-CARE), obtained by La DePaulia, reveals that communities with the most Covid-19 deaths are receiving the fewest vaccination doses.Â
Charmaine Runes, director of fact-checking for South Side Weekly, has been monitoring Chicagoâs daily vaccination progress through ChiVaxBot â an online Twitter bot that compares which zip codes in Chicago are experiencing the most Covid-19 deaths and which are receiving the vaccine.
Chicago Indoor Dining Should Resume Next Week
Meanwhile, dining rooms can reopen in Will and Kankakee counties
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Chicago should resume indoor dining “within a week,” according to the city’s top doctor. During a Thursday morning news conference, Chicago Public Health Department Commissioner Dr. Alison Arwady said indoor dining would resume soon, though she couldn’t provide a specific date. When indoor dining returns to Chicago, Arwady said the city will remain cautious enforcing a four-person maximum at tables with a 25 percent overall capacity limit indoors.
Arwady praised how the city and state has done a better job in battling COVID-19 and that’s allowed government officials to loosen restrictions. The state has already given two suburban counties Will and Kankakee its approval to resume indoor dining. On Thursday morning, the Illinois Department of Public Health announced Region 7 (as designated in the state’s