Residents of Will County are encouraged to sign up for a Covid 19 Vaccine at the website below. Then, as soon as the vaccine is available for your grouping, Will County will contact you and advise where and when you can get the vaccine and how to schedule an appointment. Click on the website below to complete a brief questionnaire that gets you in line for the vaccine.

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/14f1fac7773945a0a8cf99a96b3d804e?portalUrl=https://gis.willcountyillinois.com/portal

The first phase (1a) of vaccinations is going to hospital and clinic workers including both medical and non-medical staff with patient contact, long-term care facility residents and staff, EMS/EMTs, funeral home staff and morticians and minsters who visit hospitals and long term care facilities.

On January 25, 2021, Phase 1b began, allowing frontline essential workers and residents age 65 and over to get vaccinated. The frontline essential workers designation includes many residents who carry a higher risk of COVID-19 exposure because of their work duties, often because they are unable to work from home, and/or they must work closely to others without being able to socially distance. This includes first responders, education, food and agriculture, manufacturing, corrections workers and inmates, USPS workers, public transit workers, grocery store workers and staff at shelters and day cares. To provide more equitable vaccine access to elder populations given data showing people of color die of COVID-19 at younger ages, Illinois lowered the age eligibility recommended by ACIP by 10 years, from age 75 to age 65. Illinois has 1.3 million people who qualify as “frontline essential workers” and 1.9 million adults age 65 and over, totaling 3.2 million eligible Illinoisans.