* Daily Herald headline…
Cronin: DuPage’s vaccine allotment ‘completely and totally inadequate’
* Scroll way down in the story…
As of Monday, state data showed the DuPage health department held a vaccine inventory of 3,120 doses, while providers had 45,487. The county overall had a total inventory of 28,386 doses available for use in the first week of the month.
“Like every state in the country, Illinois receives limited doses from the federal government, so it’s imperative that every single dose coming to the state is used as quickly as possible,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s spokeswoman Jordan Abudayyeh said. “DuPage County currently has three times more doses on hand than other collar counties.”
Abudayyeh said, “IDPH has urged local health departments with large numbers of vaccine doses on hand, like DuPage County, to reach out to providers to express a sense of urgency and provide support so any backlog can be administered as soon as possible.”
“As the state’s allocation is expected to increase in coming weeks,” she said, “it is vital that county health departments get a handle on their inventory and operations so they can manage the next phases of vaccine rollout efficiently and vaccine is not sitting on shelves in their community.”
It’s actually a few thousand less than that because of a coding error that put Copley in DuPage. But click here for the spreadsheet and you’ll see where the doses are sitting.
The county needs to tell its provider partners to get a move-on or they’re taking the doses back before the state steps in and does just that. DuPage has plenty of vaccines, but they’re deflecting blame on others when the problem is in their own back yard.
*** UPDATE *** Tribune…
Illinois expects to begin administering an average of 100,000 doses per day by mid-March, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said after touring a vaccination site in West Peoria on Wednesday. He said the increase is based on “public commitments from the White House and from vaccine manufacturers.” […]
With the Food and Drug Administration’s decision on Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine moving forward this week, the governor added that an approval of the third vaccine would result in a 20% increase in the state’s incoming vaccine supply by the end of March.
The FDA on Wednesday confirmed the J&J vaccine, which is 66% effective at preventing moderate to severe COVID-19, compared with Pfizer’s 95% and Moderna’s 94.1%.
In terms of preventing death and severe illness, all three vaccines are 100% effective, Monica Hendrickson, public health administrator for the Peoria County Health Department, said Wednesday.
- OneMan - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 11:45 am:
Rush-Copley is about 300 yards away from DuPage county. Out here a lot of stuff in this corner of Kane County end up being treated as DuPage due to the zip code
- Larry Bowa Jr. - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 11:50 am:
Looks like Metro Infectious Disease Consultants has a large percentage of the county’s doses. I hope the county has an efficient mechanism via which to funnel patients there since it is not a provider that most would seek out on their own.
- JB13 - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 11:53 am:
– but they’re deflecting blame on others when the problem is in their own back yard –
Illinois Standard Operating Procedures
- Dr. Rodeo - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 12:15 pm:
Are the doses on hand for 2nd injections?
- Smalls - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 12:16 pm:
I have been critical of the Pritzker administration for Illinois being near the bottom of states in per capita vaccines administered. I am glad to see that they are now holding counties accountable for not efficiently using all of their allocations. Kudos to the administration.
- T.H. - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 12:39 pm:
Just curious. What is the source of the spreadsheet? Dupage Medical Group is huge in Dupage and I’m shocked they aren’t listed.
- concerned - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 12:47 pm:
Metro Infectious Disease Consultants doesn’t even have a location in DuPage County. https://midcusa.com/metro-infectious-disease-consultants-illinois-office-locations/
- TheInvisibleMan - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 12:49 pm:
=== but they’re deflecting blame on others ===
Will county has entered the chat.
From green-lighting open buffets at a pizza joint in the middle of the pandemic, to non-existent enforcement at any time Will county health department has joined in the blame game on vaccines.
Just last week, the county was saying they don’t have enough vaccines as an excuse to why they haven’t been contacting people quickly enough in the allowed tiers.
At the same time IDPH showed tens of thousands of vaccines in the county inventory, and a few hundred given to other providers in the county.
Depending on what the complaint directed at the county is, gives different excuses provided by the county.
To sole the problem the health department asked for a few million dollars to setup a call center. They asked for this in Feb - of this year - meaning they had no plan to contact anyone until this point.
Meanwhile they did nothing to increase the distribution or participation of external providers.
I’m disappointed nobody in that health department at the administrative level has resigned. Nothing would get any worse if all of them resigned at the same time, that’s how bad their performance is.
It is clear as day to many in the county now that they are more concerned with collecting the paycheck from their job, than actually doing their job.
- Markus - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 1:12 pm:
The IDPH website shows the difference between doses received and administered is now over 700K. How does that mesh with a reported inventory of 261.5K across the state? That’s close to 500K doses unaccounted for.
- Lt Guv - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 2:15 pm:
Former Rep. Cronin, I understand your frustration. My question is what is your solution to more equitably distribute the doses (or in the alternative not distribute them equitably and get more to DuPage). You did not offer ideas, you simply ranted.
- Last Bull Moose - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 2:18 pm:
Have been scheduled for next week by the DuPage Medical Group. I think their doses are listed under Edward or Elmhurst hospitals.
DuPage Medical Group seems to be working down through those at greatest risk. I like that better than the free for all at Walgreens.
- Question - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 3:05 pm:
Are the doses listed in the spreadsheet 1st doses or are they on hand for the 2nd?
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 4:40 pm:
Advocate is still only offering vaccines to people 65 and older.
They have not even made it to 1-B yet, and are not making the vaccine available to patients in 1-B, even though 1-B vaccinations were launched by Pritzker a month ago.
- Markus - Wednesday, Feb 24, 21 @ 7:09 pm:
According to the CDC website, as of tonight Illinois has 865K doses delivered but not yet in arms. IDPH reports only 261K doses in their inventory. That’s too many unaccounted doses to attribute to reporting delays. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations