South Loop's Village Leadership Academy Hosting Vaccine Clinic Friday Night
Students who want to get a COVID vaccine will have the chance Friday night in the South Loop.
Students who want to get a COVID vaccine will have the chance Friday night in the South Loop.
Some local sites are extending hours as they prepare to vaccinate that new age group.
A panel of independent advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted on Wednesday to recommend Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents age 12 to 15.
A local doctor's phone is ringing off the hook already, with parents ready to vaccinate their kids against COVID-19.
"Getting your child a COVID-19 vaccine is critical to his or her wellbeing, as well as the wellbeing of our community," said Dr. Frank Belmonte, chief medical officer for Advocate Children's Hospital.
Seven city-operated mass vaccination sites will begin offering the Pfizer vaccine to children ages 12-15 on Thursday. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 15.
Monday is the last day to get a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the United Center as the city starts winding down vaccination sites in the next few weeks.
Pfizer and BioNTech initiated an application to the US Food and Drug Administration, seeking full FDA approval of its Covid-19 vaccine for individuals 16 years and older.
Mass vaccination sites in Cook County are gearing up for the Food and Drug Administration to approve the Pfizer vaccine for children ages 12 to 15.
Sources said the FDA could authorize the Pfizer shot for kids as young as 12 years old, by early next week.
"I just thought, since it's an empty vial, I did not think it was a big deal," said John Li, director of pharmacy at Thorek Memorial Hospital.
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The city's program to vaccinate homebound seniors will switch to the Pfizer vaccine, and appointments will resume on Friday.
In one of the biggest steps in getting more people in Illinois vaccinated against COVID-19, the state moves to Phase 2 of its vaccination program on Monday.
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The freshly vaccinated will spend Tuesday night signing up for check-in texts with the state and for the second shot in 21 days.
It was a powerful and memorable day Monday for the medical community as the COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Illinois – with several saying "once in a lifetime" doesn't quite capture it.
There was a major sign of hope Sunday on the battle against the coronavirus, as the first boxes of COVID-19 vaccine were packed up and shipped out from the Pfizer plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine were headed to hospitals late Sunday, and were poised to be administered to frontline health care workers within hours.
It is absolutely vital that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is kept at 70 degrees below zero. For that to happen, the Federal Aviation Administration had to make some changes for how much dry ice is allowed on planes to allow more of the vaccine to be shipped at once.
The Food and Drug Administration' Vaccines Advisory Committee Thursday recommended Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine be approved for emergency use, which would trigger a massive distribution effort.
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