CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Cook County Health has unveiled an advertising campaign to try to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19.
The ad campaign is called, “Trust Us,” and features a number of different doctors saying, “We are your doctors. You trust us. You trust us. You trust us. You trust us. You trust us with your life. You trust us with those you love,” and encouraging people not to wait until it’s too late.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said Cook County Health is averaging more than 100 more patients a week with COVID-19 now than a year ago.
“While more than 60 percent of the residents of Cook County have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine, we need all of our residents, all of our residents to step up and get vaccinated,” she said.
Cook County Health’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Claudia Fegan said health care professionals are not angry over people deciding not to be vaccinated, but she said they are frustrated.
“Every time we see someone who is seriously ill, and especially when we have people who, just as we’re preparing to intubate them or put them on ventilator, are now asking for a vaccine and we’re wishing we could have gotten it to them sooner," she said.
She added, “I wish that the other vaccines we’ve had all along, like flu vaccine, were as effective as these vaccines are today.”
Dr. Fegan said she tells her patients that, if they won’t get vaccinated for themselves, they should get vaccinated for their mom, dad, or someone else they care about.
Dr. Greg Huhn is the county’s COVID-19 vaccine coordinator and said vaccinated people who contract COVID tend to have more mild symptoms than unvaccinated people. Also, “Vaccinated people make up less than one percent of our COVID deaths.”
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