Illinois, Chicago To Begin Administering Vaccines This Week

Virus Outbreak New York Vaccine
Nurse Frank Baez, right, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Tara Easter, a nurse manager of the hospital's medical intensive care unit, at NYU-Langone Hospital on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in New York. Kevin Hagen / AP Photo
Virus Outbreak New York Vaccine
Nurse Frank Baez, right, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Tara Easter, a nurse manager of the hospital's medical intensive care unit, at NYU-Langone Hospital on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in New York. Kevin Hagen / AP Photo

Illinois, Chicago To Begin Administering Vaccines This Week

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Reset checks in with frontline workers around the city to find out how they’re preparing to receive the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

GUESTS: Dr. Ernie Wang, chief of emergency medicine at NorthShore University HealthSystem

Paul Pater, registered nurse at UI Health; Illinois Nurses Association co-chief steward at UIC Hospital

Gus Noble, president of the Chicago Scots and Caledonia Senior Living and Memory Care