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By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD – The message remains: wear a mask. But there’s a new one: get a shot.
Gov. JB Pritzker said Wednesday some minority groups, customarily and culturally, do not trust vaccines.
“We are doing education campaigns to make sure that people of color and others who may be vaccine-hesitant will learn and understand how important it is to get vaccinated. You know, I think many of the people who are hesitant to get the vaccine want to see get someone else get it: someone that they know.”
Pritzker, adding more vaccine priority will be given to essential frontliner’s and Illinoisans 65 and up, says he expects the new president to activate the Defense Production Act to free up the flow of vaccines.
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