Blog Posts in December, 2020

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Barbara Shields Johnson, director of nursing at The Loretto Hospital in Chicago, explains why she believes it was important for her as a person of color to publicly receive the Covid-19 vaccine. “There’s a great need ...

1st Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines in Chicago administered at Loretto Hospital

CHICAGO (WLS) -- History was made in Chicago Tuesday after the first COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer in Chicago were administered at Loretto Hospital on the West Side. The hospital was chosen because of the care it has ...

The Latest: Kansas mayor resigns over mask mandate threats

KANSAS — A western Kansas mayor announced Tuesday that she is resigning, effective immediately, because of threats she has received after she publicly supported a mask mandate. Dodge City Mayor Joyce Warshaw said she ...

Coronavirus live updates: 'Breakthrough' home test gets OK from FDA; 1 in 6 who ...

USA TODAY is keeping track of the news surrounding COVID-19 as vaccines begin to roll out nationwide. Just this week, the US marked the stark milestone of more than 300,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. ...

Chicago healthcare workers receive 1st COVID-19 vaccines at West Side hospital

Five health care workers, including emergency room nurses, rolled up their sleeves and received shots at Loretto Hospital

Five Nurses, Doctors First to Get Vaccine in Chicago at West Side Hospital

Five nurses and doctors became the first people in Chicago to be vaccinated for the coronavirus Tuesday morning at a West Side hospital in the middle of a Chicago neighborhood ravaged by COVID-19. City officials chose ...

First health care workers in Illinois get COVID-19 vaccines

Applause erupted as doctors and nurses received COVID-19 shots in Chicago and Peoria Tuesday, a positive step after months of a seemingly uncontainable pandemic that has caused more than 14,500 deaths in Illinois ...

Chicago administers first 5 doses of coronavirus vaccines

Five front-line medical workers received the vaccine against COVID-19 in Chicago on Tuesday morning, marking an important milestone in the fight against the coronavirus. “What we just witnessed is history in the ...

Dr. Marina Del Rios, one of the first to get the COVID vaccine today

Dr. Marina Del Rios joins John Williams just ahead of her vaccination at Loretto Hospital, where she will be the first of the first in Chicago to be immunized of COVID. She shares a message for the Latino and black ...

117 more Illinois coronavirus deaths as vaccine brings state to 'beginning of the e ...

COVID-19 deaths are still occurring at an alarming rate, with an average of 150 fatalities per day so far this month. The coronavirus has killed an additional 117 Illinoisans and spread to 7,359 more, public health ...

Watch: First COVID vaccines are given in Chicago

Dec. 15 update: At Loretto Hospital this morning, the first COVID-19 vaccines were given to five front-line health care workers. The historic and highly anticipated event came just days after federal regulators ...

'Historic Day': Chicago Gives First Coronavirus Vaccines to Health Care Workers

Chicago administered the first doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine to five health care workers on Tuesday in what city officials touted as an "historic" moment at Loretto Hospital on the city's West Side. Dubbing ...

First doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Chicago area

CHICAGO — A hospital on the West Side was the first in Chicago to administer the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. Five health care workers, including emergency room nurses, rolled up their sleeves and received shots at ...

Bringing Clinical Trials to Minority Communities

Bringing Clinical Trials to Minority Communities With the goal of equity, The Loretto Hospital on Chicago’s West Side is marshaling its forces against history and exclusion to bring clinical trials to the largely ...