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How getting the flu shot in Illinois is different this year - Chicago Tribune

How getting the flu shot in Illinois is different this year - Chicago Tribune

How getting the flu shot in Illinois is different this year - Chicago Tribune
Sep 24, 2020 1 min, 27 secs

Some Chicago-area doctors and pharmacies are offering drive-thru flu shots for kids and adults to help with social distancing.

University of Chicago Medicine has also been holding drive-thru flu shot clinics once a week on its Hyde Park campus for current patients who are ages 9 and older, Bartlett said.

Advocate Aurora Health is offering more than a dozen drive-thru clinics in the Chicago area as well as three for children in Wilmette, Park Ridge and the South Side of Chicago.

Some pediatric practices are offering drive-thru clinics, rather than the mass, walk-in immunization clinics they often held in their offices on weekends in years past.

PediaTrust, which has 20 pediatric offices throughout the north, northwest and west suburbs, has already vaccinated more than 2,600 children in drive-thru clinics.

Children who might need extra attention, including those who have a fear of shots, can get out of their cars with a parent to get the vaccine on a chair outside, she said.

Parent Colleen Torf recently took her 12- and 9-year-old sons to a drive-thru vaccine clinic at Kids First Pediatric Partners in Skokie.

But not all pediatric practices are offering drive-thru clinics.

Lurie is trying other tactics to get the vaccine to as many kids as possible, such as offering the nasal spray flu vaccine, which is “easier to give and quicker,” Jhaveri said.

Many pediatric practices that aren’t offering drive-thru clinics are requiring parents to make appointments for their kids to get the flu shot, to ensure not too many people fill their offices at the same time.

He also noted that if parents are having trouble getting their kids flu shot appointments at their pediatricians' offices, they can try going to pharmacies or other types of clinics offering the vaccine.

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