The pharmacy chains have used just 20.1% of the doses allocated for Illinois nursing-home residents and staffers. “You have a captive population in these facilities,” said said Dr. Ronald Hershow. “It doesn’t seem like it should be as logistically difficult as [vaccinating] the general population.”
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.