Advocate Southland Hospitals Get First Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine

OAK LAWN, IL — Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Advocate Trinity Hospital in Chicago and Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest received their first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, marking an important milestone in the fight against the pandemic.

Clinicians working in emergency departments, intensive care units and other settings with COVID-19 patients have begun receiving vaccines at Advocate South Suburban. Team members at Advocate Christ were to begin vaccinating front line staff Thursday evening. Advocate Trinity will start Friday.

Advocate Christ, the regional hub of the south suburbs, was slated to receive 8,775 doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week, part of the 109,000 doses that arrived in Illinois on Monday.

The federal government halved its estimate for the number of doses of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine it will deliver to Illinois and other states in the coming weeks.

Thursday saw 8,838 new coronavirus cases and 181 deaths. Since the start of the pandemic, Illinois has had 879,428 known COVID-19 cases, with 14,835 deaths reported statewide.