How will I know when it’s my turn to be vaccinated?

Good morning, Evanston.

Many of the area senior residential facilities have vaccinated their residents through a federal program in partnership with CVS and Walgreens pharmacies. 

Here’s what we know about vaccine registration and rollout for everyone else:

The City’s Health and Human Services Department is currently scheduling appointments for residents 75 and up who do not live in senior housing facilities, along with others in Phase 1a, following Illinois Department of Public Health and CDC guidelines. The pace of vaccine distribution is entirely dependent on the number of doses the City receives on a weekly basis. 

• Homebound?  For In-home vaccinations, fill out the City’s In-Home COVID-19 Vaccination Contact Form if you are 65 years and older and homebound due to medical conditions. 
• Skevanston residents should sign-up with the Village of Skokie to pre-register for the vaccine. 
• Everyone else, register with the Evanston Health and Human Services Department if you haven’t already done so. 

What to expect after registering:

Based on the information provided, the City will email residents when the vaccine is available. The City’s notification email will include a link to register for a 15-minute time slot to receive the first dose of the vaccine.

Upon completing registration, residents will receive an email and/or text message confirming the details of the appointment with a ticket to present for admission. For Evanston residents, bring along the ticket and an ID. For individuals who work in Evanston, bring a work ID or documentation that shows Evanston employment. 

Sample ticket: 

After receiving the first dose, you’ll be notified about scheduling an appointment for your second dose several days in advance of its availability. Pfizer doses are administered 21 days (or more) apart, and Moderna doses 28 days (or more) apart. Register for your second dose in the same way you did your first by selecting a 15-minute time slot. 

Covid by the numbers:

• Ten new Covid-19 cases were reported yesterday, in line with the seven-day average. 
• There were no reported fatalities yesterday.  Evanston has lost 108 residents to the pandemic. 
• Our City’s positive test rate is 0.9%; in suburban Cook County it is 6.2% and in Illinois it is 3.3%.
• Illinois has received 2.1 million doses of the vaccine; 64% of doses have been used thus far and about 52,000 doses were administered last week. 
• About 299,000 or 2.4% of Illinois residents are fully vaccinated.   
  
  

Get to know the candidates:

Early in-person voting opened this week at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center for the February 23rd primary. (See hours here.) Residents have until Feb. 18 to request a mail-in ballot here. In addition to mayoral and city clerk candidates, residents in the Fourth and Eighth Wards will vote for alderman because more than four candidates are running in those wards. The names of the top two vote-getters will appear on the April 6 general election ballot.

See the RoundTable website for interviews with each candidate. In addition, we invited aldermanic candidates Patricia Connolly, Diane Goldring, Jonathan Nieuwsma, Sari Kadison-Shapiro, and incumbent Donald Wilson to offer a tour of the Fourth Ward, including its top assets and top challenges. 

Elsewhere on the RoundTable website:

Around the web:

Daily Northwestern:

• Main-Dempster Mile, local DJ partner to pump up the Evanston community The Main-Dempster Mile has created a “Finish Strong, Evanston” Spotify playlist in partnership with local DJ, Johnny Price, to keep spirits up.
  
• Temperance Beer Co. as well as Mack’s Bike and Goods are financially supporting reparations initiatives in Evanston. Temperance Beer Co. is donating 100% of profits from their Black History Month beer to the Evanston reparations fund, while Mack’s Bike and Goods is donating 1% of their monthly profits to the fund.

Dear Evanston: This month, Dear Evanston invites participants to join its Racial Justice Book Group, which will discuss Eddie Glaude, Jr.’s Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for our Own.

Chicago Tribune:

• Evanston Township High School to reopen for ‘in-person experiences,’ but classes will continue to be taught remotely

• Excitement over having a basketball season outshines headaches of game scheduling, finding gym time; ‘We’ll take whatever we can get’
  ETHS senior guard Blake Peters is featured in this Chicago Tribune article about the Wildkits’ undefeated season thus far as well as the COVID-19 impact on high school sports.
  

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