After receiving additional guidance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, local and state officials changed the eligibility requirements for appointments at the United Center’s mass vaccination site, limiting appointments to Chicago and Cook County residents only.
According to an email sent Sunday by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s office, meeting eligibility will indeed be extended to residents 18 years of age or older with pre-existing health conditions and comorbidities, but meetings will only be available to residents. from Chicago after 4pm on Sunday.
Here’s who is now eligible to sign up for coronavirus vaccine appointments at United Center:
Chicago residents
-All Chicago residents who are 18 years of age or older and have pre-existing health conditions, including cancer, diabetes, obesity and other conditions identified by the Illinois Department of Public Health, are now eligible to enroll for vaccination schedules at United Center.
Residents of Chicago who meet these criteria can visit Zocdoc.com or call the city’s hotline at 312-746-4835.
The inhabitants of the suburbs of Cook County
-The Zocdoc website will no longer allow residents of the suburbs to register for meetings at the mass vaccine site, but a block of meetings has been reserved for residents of the suburbs of Cook County.
More details on how to get these appointments will be released this week, but instead Zocdoc residents will be guided to use the Cook County vaccination site.
A telephone line will also be used to set up appointments, with residents being able to call 833-308-1988, Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Illinois residents
-Illinois residents living outside Cook County will not be eligible to enroll for COVID-19 vaccines at the United Center.
Instead, the doses on the United Center website will be distributed to mobile vaccination teams, according to the governor’s office. These vaccine doses will go to the areas most affected by the coronavirus, and the exact locations will be determined at a later date.