Vaccines going to long-term care facilities through CVS and Walgreens

DECATUR, Ill (WAND) - CVS and Walgreens are partnering with skilled nurse and assisted living facilities to receive the vaccine in the coming 12 weeks.

It will be over the course of three trips.

"Three visits over the next 12 weeks. Illinois requires a second dose three weeks after the initial dose. We're going to do three visits to make sure that we get everyone their second dose on time," Sarah Edington, district leader for CVS Health, said.

The people administering the vaccines will go directly to each facility.

"We are going to go room to room to administer them to make sure they're safe," Edington said. 

"In the state of Illinois, we have 900 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities that we will be visiting with the ability to vaccinate roughly 150,000 people," Edington said.