Youngest Chicagoans focus of latest vaccination push

Viktoria de Jong (right) talks to a 4-year-old boy sitting as he sits on his mother’s lap after getting his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday at the Blue Door Neighborhood Center in Morgan Park. (Mariah Rush/Sun-Times)

With the COVID-19 vaccine approved for children under age 5 earlier this month, the push is continuing to get needles into those little arms.

To help accomplish that, the Chicago Department of Public Health is teaming up with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois to provide the vaccine at the health insurer’s Blue Door Neighborhood Center locations on the South and West side.