
The city is doing well over 5,000 appointments per day at the site, Arwady said Tuesday, and the site’s drive-thru portion opened Wednesday. Allison Arwady, head of the Chicago Department of Public Health, has repeatedly said. The mass vaccination site is actually bustling along, with appointments filling up quickly and no doses being wasted, Dr. And people who are spreading the false message and signing up for appointments are creating more work for the city’s health department, officials have said. The message - which has been shared and spread rapidly on social media and in text messages - is untrue. Some versions of the message wrongly say the city created the voucher code because it isn’t filling appointments at the site or is having to throw out doses. The incorrect message claims anyone, regardless of their eligibility, can sign up at the United Center mass vaccination site using a voucher code and a link that takes you to a site where you can sign up for appointments.


CHICAGO - Viral posts on social media are falsely claiming to have a way any Chicagoan can land an appointment at the United Center mass vaccination site - and it’s creating a headache for the city’s health department.
