COVID-19 vaccines given to hundreds of University of Illinois employees who weren’t yet eligible, including coaches and instructors – Chicago Tribune*

County health officials who oversee the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say they misunderstood state guidelines for vaccinating higher education employees and erroneously allowed hundreds of people who weren’t yet eligible — including coaches in the basketball program — to sign up for COVID-19 inoculations in early February.

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