Postal Service and “City government leaders” or “City elected officials critical to maintain continuity of governmental operations and services,” according to the Public Health Department’s website. That section mentions only employees of the U.S. There’s a category in the city’s 1b definition for an estimated 5,300 government workers in Chicago. “If a Cook County judge was vaccinated at The Loretto Hospital, he or she met the Chicago Department of Public Health’s 1B vaccination requirements, which include elected officials,” Miller, Loretto’s president and CEO, said in a statement to WBEZ.īut the city Public Health Department’s definition of 1b - which is the group being vaccinated currently - does not include judges. Each offered different explanations for why they thought it was legitimate to vaccinate the judges and others at a time when many who are already eligible for vaccinations have struggled to get shots due to enormous demand and limited supply. In the email, Marsalek did not say how she became aware of the opportunity to get vaccinated at Loretto, and she did not return WBEZ’s messages Wednesday.īoth the spokeswoman for Chief Judge Timothy Evans and Loretto Hospital’s chief executive, George Miller, defended the vaccinations offered to the judges. I will need you to send me the name if you want to get the shot today and if you want to bring a spouse by 5:15 p.m.” “You can also bring a spouse or second person.
“You will need to be there by 6:30 p.m.,” Marsalek wrote. Marsalek told the other judges that they and one more person of their choice could get the Pfizer vaccine at Loretto Hospital, in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, later that day. The email was sent by Judge Diann Marsalek, the acting presiding judge in Cook County Circuit Court’s Traffic Division, at 4:40 p.m. That happened even though the city of Chicago’s rollout of the vaccine and state of Illinois rules make clear being a judge will not make someone eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus until March 29.
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