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Governors work to expedite vaccine effort after slow start By Michael R. Smith Biden criticizes pace of coronavirus vaccine rollout, vows to accelerate President-elect Joe Biden on Dec. 29 gave remarks on the state of the pandemic and criticized the Trump administration for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines, saying it is falling behind. New York’s governor threatened to fine hospitals if they don't use their allotment of COVID-19 vaccine fast enough. His South Carolina counterpart warned health care workers they have until Jan. 15 to get a shot or move to the back of the line. Cali...

Efforts Underway to Update Public on Vaccine Availability in Illinois Chris Coffey © Provided by NBC Chicago In front of an American flag, nurse Lillian Wirpsza administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Shylee Stewart, a labor and delivery nurse at George Washington University Hospital, in Washington, D.C., U.S. December 14, 2020. Medical workers and nursing home residents and staff may be the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, but Chicago area doctor’s offices, health departments and a grocery store chain are already trying to find out who is interested in getting vaccina...

Illinois Expects to Receive Moderna, More Doses of Pfizer Vaccine This Week © Provided by NBC Chicago In front of an American flag, nurse Lillian Wirpsza administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Shylee Stewart, a labor and delivery nurse at George Washington University Hospital, in Washington, D.C., U.S. December 14, 2020. Illinois plans to receive its first shipments of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine as well as additional doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week, state officials said Monday. Last week, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker expressed concern about reduced shipments of the Pfizer vaccine, saying t...

'Hope': Burned out health workers buoyed by vaccine Issued on: 3 min Washington (AFP) As an anesthesiologist in a slammed emergency department, Raymond Pla has to handle Covid patients' ventilators, one of the riskiest jobs in the pandemic. On Monday he was one of five front line workers at George Washington University Hospital to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. A single word captured what it meant to him: "Hope." The doctor might have felt excited to be among the first in the world to get injected with molecules of synthetic messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), the cutting-edge technolo...

Media Credit: Grace Hromin | Assistant Photo Editor U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams encouraged all patients to take the vaccine, and he urged local officials to ensure doses are distributed in an equitable manner. A group of five health care workers at the GW Hospital became the first to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in D.C. Monday. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams joined Mayor Muriel Bowser and medical staff at GW Hospital to present the first novel coronavirus vaccinations in the District. Barbara Neiswander, a nursing supervisor at the...