Illinois, Chicago To Begin Administering Vaccines This Week

By Stephanie Kim, Steve Bynum
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

By Stephanie Kim, Steve Bynum

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