I think the fire department in every community is uniquely positioned to be able to deliver these [vaccinations], said Division Chief John Sergeant of the Naperville Fire Department. One: We have the personnel. Two: We have the familiarity with the people in the community. We know the situations that they’re facing.
David Good of Naperville said his mother, Shirley, 94, recently moved into his house. My mom gets around with a walker and getting her out of the house would be quite a process, Good said.
Good registered his mother for a homebound vaccination, and on Tuesday afternoon two Naperville firefighters arrived to provide the shot.
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Julie Herrera never really had to ask her 12-year-old daughter Ella if she wanted to get a COVID-19 vaccine. I think she knew it had been approved for kids her age before I did, the Naperville mother of two teenagers said. She asked me today if I d made her an appointment, and I had to tell her they weren t available yet.
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved use of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine Monday for anyone 12 and older, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immunization panel still has to authorize its use for 12- to 15-year-olds. That move is expected Wednesday.
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On Feb. 7, Naperville paramedics responded to the home of 67-year-old Marsha Slaboch to find her unresponsive, not breathing and without a pulse.
Her husband, Randy, watched helplessly as they performed advanced cardiac resuscitation measures, fearing she wasn t going to make it. But on the way to the hospital, the crew was able to revive Slaboch, who was awake and alert the next day.
There s absolutely no doubt in my mind they saved her life, her husband said.
Nearly three months later, Naperville medics returned to the Slaboch household to perform another potentially lifesaving act: administering the COVID-19 vaccine.
UpdatedSat, May 15, 2021 at 9:31 am CT
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As of Sunday, Illinois coronavirus case count increased to 1,354,967, up 1.3 percent from a week earlier. The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 22,223 state residents. (Shutterstock)
DARIEN, IL Darien last week saw the lowest coronavirus rate in more than a month, according to the DuPage County Health Department.
As of Sunday, Darien had a total of 1,724 coronavirus cases, up 15 from a week before, or a 0.9 percent increase. The previous week, the city saw a 1.2 percent increase in cases.
The city s number of coronavirus deaths stayed the same in the last week, at 21. That works out to less than a thousandth of Darien s population.