United Center appointments open to 4 more ZIP codes
After another record-setting day of administering COVID-19 vaccines in Illinois, city officials on Saturday opened up eligibility to four more Chicago ZIP codes on the South and West Sides for shots at the United Center in an attempt to get more doses into arms of people living in neighborhoods hit hard by the pandemic.
The newly added ZIP codes are 60624, 60644, 60651 and 60653, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office said in a statement. They join the 60608, 60619, 60620, 60649 and 60652 ZIP codes.
Anyone who lives in those areas can sign up for an appointment at events. juvare.com/chicago/UCPOD/ with the code “CCVICHICAGO,” or by reaching the multilingual call center at (312) 746-4835.
“These are the areas where we’ve seen some of the highest rates of severe illness and death throughout the pandemic, and where access to the vaccine has been most challenging. So we had to act,” Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said in a statement.
People who live outside of those ZIP codes and try to sign up will have their appointments canceled, city officials said.
The eligibility expansion comes as state health officials announced another 152,697 vaccine doses were doled out Friday, marking the state’s highest one-day total yet.
State health officials on Saturday reported 1,675 new probable and confirmed COVID-19 cases and an additional 23 deaths. The new cases were found among the 77,505 tests in the last day, for a daily positivity rate of roughly 2.2%.