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Doctor, Nurses Who Treated Illinois' First COVID Victims Vaccinated

CBS 2's Mugo Odigwe spoke with them.

HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL (CBS) — They cared for the first two identified COVID-19 patients in Illinois, and this morning a doctor and two nurses in the northwest suburbs were immunized against the coronavirus.

Many caregivers here at AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates were involved in caring for the woman who was the first confirmed COVID-19 patient in Illinois, and later her husband, at a time when much was unknown about the virus.

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