A midnight chance for Northwestern Pfizer vaccine-hopefuls
Scores of students rushed to Norris University Center in the middle of the night Saturday for a chance to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. In an unexpected email sent at 9:29 p.m. Saturday night, the University notified on-campus students 169 unused Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were available — and that appointments started at midnight. The midnight vaccine clinic was held just days before Illinois opens up vaccines to all residents ages 16 and older. Students who secured a vaccine slot were intermittently moved to the third floor of Norris when their appointment time arrived. There, they filled out...