A team from the US Army arrived Friday to support the work being done on a new tent that is being erected for vaccination.
To sign up for a United Center appointment, visit www.zocdoc.com/vaccine or call the multilingual hotline (312) 746-4835 from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm Monday to Saturday and 8:00 am to 4:00 pm on Sundays.
101st Airborne members arrived to help administer vaccines at the Near West Side mass vaccination site. There are still appointments available for the United Center, although tens of thousands were scheduled on Thursday, causing some technical headaches for hopeful ones.
City officials say that despite some initial problems with the ZocDoc appointment scheduling website and problems with the overloaded call option, nearly 28,000 seniors had registered by phone and online by mid-afternoon.
The site is offering 110,000 hours, but seniors will continue to have exclusive access to them until 4pm on Sunday.
The United Center website will be the largest in the state. It will have a pre-opening next Tuesday.
Another mass vaccination site opened Friday in Des Plaines and distributed 800 Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
Appointments for all 18,000 vacancies were scheduled in a matter of hours on Thursday. The Des Plaines website is for Cook County residents only.
It will be the first large-scale site in the state to administer the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, which is a single dose vaccination.
Appointments to the Des Plaines mass vaccination site can be made at vaccine.cookcountyil.gov or by calling (833) 308-1988. The site will be open from Monday to Friday, from 7 am to 7 pm
Illinois reported a new daily high in vaccinations on Friday, with almost 132,000 administered in a single day.
In minority communities, progress is being made, but not enough, so the state launched a new $ 10 million public message campaign to reduce vaccine hesitation.
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