Many of our team are engaged with the important work of the Chicagoland Vaccine Partnership and other city, county, and state COVID-19 related taskforces. We’re pleased to see many organizations coming out for vaccine mandates and want to clearly state our support for mandates, with very limited exceptions. We believe vaccines are our only way out of the pandemic and encourage you to implement, or influence your place of work to implement, a vaccine mandate.
To those who believe this is a violation of civil liberties, we stand squarely on the other side—this mandate protects the most vulnerable among us, including people with compromised immune systems, people with disabilities, and communities of color hit hardest by the pandemic. Learn more in the NYT opinion piece here.
Margie Schaps, MPH
Executive Director