A U.S. military team arrived Friday to support work with a new tent being set up for vaccinations behind the wheel.
To register for an appointment at United Center, visit www.zocdoc.com/vaccine or call the multilingual hotline at (312) 746-4835 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and from 8 p.m. : 00 to 16:00 Sunday.
Members of the 101st Airborne have arrived to help administer the vaccines at the mass vaccination site in the Near West Side area. There are still appointments available for United Center, even though tens of thousands were booked on Thursday, causing some technical headaches for hope.
City officials say that despite early errors on the ZocDoc website for scheduling and problems with the overwhelmed call option, nearly 28,000 seniors registered by phone and online by mid-afternoon.
The site offers 110,000 meeting slots, but seniors will continue to have exclusive access to them until Sunday at 4 p.m.
The United Center site will be the largest in the state. It will have an easy opening next Tuesday.
Another mass vaccination site opened in Des Plaines on Friday and offered 800 Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
Appointments for all 18,000 seats were booked in a few hours on Thursday. The Des Plaines website is intended only for residents of Cook County.
It will be the state’s first large-scale location to administer the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, which is a single-dose vaccination.
Appointments for the Des Plaines Mass Vaccination Site can be made at vaccine.cookcountyil.gov or by phone at (833) 308-1988. The site will be open Monday to Friday from 07:00 to 19:00
Illinois reported a new daily level of vaccinations on Friday, with nearly 132,000 administered in a single day.
There is progress, but not enough, in minority communities, so the state has launched a new $ 10 million public messaging campaign to reduce vaccine hesitation.
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