3rd Coronavirus Vaccine Coming To Illinois This Week: Pritzker

ILLINOIS — Illinois is scheduled to receive its first shipments of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine this week, which will significantly boost the state’s supply, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday.

Illinois is set to receive about 105,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine, which recently received emergency-use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It can be stored at much higher temperatures than vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer.

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All three approved vaccines are 100 percent effective at protecting against death and hospitalization, public health officials said.

About 22,000 doses will be sent to Chicago, with the “vast majority” of the remaining 83,000 shots to be distributed to mass vaccination sites, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

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The approval of a third coronavirus vaccine could boost Illinois’ supply of doses by about 20 percent over the next four weeks, Pritzker said. President Joe Biden has also made public commitments to send more vaccines to Illinois, which could see the state get more than 100,000 doses per day by mid-March, he said.

“We are getting closer and closer to widespread availability that we all want,” Pritzker said. “Things are getting better; this pandemic will end. And we’ll get there faster by looking out for one another.”

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Johnson & Johnson officials have said they expect to ship 16 million doses by the end of March, 100 million doses by June and 1 billion doses by the end of the year, NBC5 Chicago reports.