On Dec. 15, well being care staff throughout Chicago started receiving the town’s first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Quickly, a doubtlessly troubling trend emerged. Within days, docs and different well being care staff from high-income, in large part white communities close to downtown and at the North Side confirmed up in huge numbers to get photographs on the hospitals the place they paintings. By Dec. 26, the best selection of vaccinations citywide have been of docs and different well being care staff from the Near North Side and in Lake View, Lincoln Park, South Loop and Wicker Park, an research via the Sun-Times’ Brett Chase discovered. But for staff dwelling in decrease revenue and dealing magnificence neighborhoods
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FDA approved emergency rollout of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine,
Latest FDA approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times WASHINGTON — The U.S. gave the general go-ahead Friday to the country’s first COVID-19 vaccine, marking what might be the start of the top of a plague that has killed just about 300,000 Americans, in step with an individual accustomed to the verdict