Pritzker attempts to explain frustrating vaccine rollout at Belleville mass vaccination site herald-review.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from herald-review.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SPRINGFIELD â 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. J.B. 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.
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered his virtual budget address Feb. 17, 2021, from the State Fair Grounds, which a hundred years earlier was the site of a makeshift hospital for patients affected by the Spanish Flu. | Screen shot
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