Your Daily COVID-19 Update: Chicago Opens First Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Site

The new site opened at Malcolm X College on the Near West Side Tuesday. The city’s top doctor was the first to be vaccinated there.

By Stephanie Kim

Dec 29, 2020, 4:30pm CT

A nurse at Saint Anthony Hospital draws a dose Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, of the first of the two Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccinations for a hospital worker at the facility in Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Photo

Your Daily COVID-19 Update: Chicago Opens First Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Site

The new site opened at Malcolm X College on the Near West Side Tuesday. The city’s top doctor was the first to be vaccinated there.

By Stephanie Kim

Dec 29, 2020, 4:30pm CT

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Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady received her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday morning at one of the city’s new mass COVID-19 vaccination sites. Plus, vaccinations are underway at long-term care facilities around Illinois.

Reset learns more about what these next steps mean in the fight against COVID-19 in Chicago and Illinois and what health care workers need to be better equipped in 2021.

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