People receiving the COVID-19 vaccination are up in March. | Adobe Stock
People receiving the COVID-19 vaccination are up in March. | Adobe Stock
Daily vaccination distributions across Illinois are sharply up in March after a period last month where inclement weather severely slowed the pace.
Recently, the seven-day rolling average for daily vaccines skyrocketed by 43%, with as many as 80,000 Illinois residents receiving a daily shot by March 1, up from 56,000 a day the week before, the local Patch news site reported.
Expected to add to the upward trajectory, state officials anticipated receiving the initial 83,000 doses of the newly authorized Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine initially.
Expected to be primarily shipped to mass vaccination sites now popping up across the state, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is a single shot and can be stored at much warmer temperatures.
The new dose allotments are in addition to the approximately 288,000 the federal government allocated to Illinois this week, not including Chicago's haul.
In remarks recently, Gov. J.B. Pritzker predicted that as many as 100,000 Illinois residents would soon be enduring a shot every day.
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