What to expect as vaccines make way to Central Illinois hospitals

CENTRAL ILLINOIS, Ill. (WAND) - Local hospitals in Central Illinois are prepared to vaccinate employees as early as Monday.

The first trucks bearing the doses departed Pfizer's plant in Portage, Michigan on Sunday and the company expects to deliver 2.9 million doses to 636 predetermined locations by the end of this week.109,000 initial doses will come to Illinois in the first shipment, with 23,000 allocated to Chicago and 86,000 to the rest of the state.

In Illinois, hospitals that are in the top 50 counties with the highest deaths per capita will receive doses for its employees. Each health region in Illinois has a hospital that is a designated vaccine hub. In Central Illinois, those hospitals include Carle Foundation Hospital in Champaign and HSHS St. John's Hospital in Springfield.

Carle Foundation hospital tells WAND News all vaccines will go through its facility before being delivered to the eligible hospitals. Once they are scanned in the facility they will head to hospitals that fall into the IDPH criteria. Each hospital is responsible for determining when employees to get vaccinated and logistics for vaccination.

However, Carle told us it is now not expecting vaccine shipments Monday. This would affect all hospitals within Region 6.

Those hospitals getting vaccines are in the following counties: Macon, Cass, Morgan, Shelby, Coles, Christian and Iroquois counties.

WAND News has reached out to each hospital in these areas about how many vaccines each hospital expects, here is the latest numbers: