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At least five people were wounded in shootings Tuesday in Chicago, including two people shot within hours of each other in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.
In the last reported shooting, a 23-year-old man was shot as he walked in the 1900 block of South Trumbull Avenue, Chicago police said. The 23-year-old was struck in the back and arm about 11:10 p.m., and taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in fair condition.
A hour earlier, a 30-year-old man was shot while walking on a sidewalk in Washington Park. Gunfire rang out about 10:15 p.m. and he was struck in his leg, police said. He was listed in fair condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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Published December 16, 2020 •
Updated on December 16, 2020 at 1:23 pm
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As health care workers around the U.S. begin to receive the first vaccinations against the coronavirus, some hospitals across the Chicago area are still waiting on their shipments of the vaccine.
A spokeswoman for Loyola University Medical Center in suburban Maywood said Wednesday that the hospital system was told it would not receive its doses of the vaccine until as early as Thursday. The vaccine was produced by Pfizer and approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week, with shipments sent across the nation beginning Sunday.
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Gov. JB Pritzker s office provided this video of the first COVID-19 vaccines as they arrived in Illinois on December 14, 2020.
The 50 Illinois counties with the highest COVID death rates per capita are the priority in this initial vaccine shipment. That includes suburban Cook County, where the first batch of more than 20,000 doses is expected to arrive this week. It is my sincere hope that today marks the moment where we flag Tuesday, December 14th as the beginning of the end, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle said.
For now, it appears the first vaccinations will take place both in suburban Cook County and at the county s two public hospitals on Wednesday. The vaccines will be split between 15 hospitals and will go to health care workers and people living in assisted care facilities.