A Chicago City Council meeting planned for Wednesday on natural COVID immunity was canceled when not enough aldermen showed up.
The meeting was called to discuss whether natural immunity against COVID-19 should be considered as a valid alternative to the vaccine requirement for city workers.
"I think it's sad that a group of aldermen would rather attend a press conference yesterday about redistricting than show up today and try to save our Chicago Police Department," said 23rd Ward Alderman Silvana Tabares. "We have 1,500 less police officers than we did two years ago today," said 19th Ward Alderman Matt O'Shea."Many of those early retirement. We cannot afford 100, 500, 1,000 less police officers to possibly be going on the shelf."
"There is certainly some degree of protection that natural immunity having survived the infection provides, but it is far and away lower than what we can see with vaccines," said Dr. Benjamin Singer, attending physician Northwestern Memorial Hospital."I'm not going to continue to be engaged in political charades and stunts, I'm just not," Lightfoot said.
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