{"id":1142603,"date":"2021-12-22T15:19:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142603"},"modified":"2021-12-22T15:19:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:19:22","slug":"chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-vaccine-requirements-for-restaurants-are-now-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-vaccine-requirements-for-restaurants-are-now-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Vaccine Requirements for Restaurants Are Now \u2018Necessary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-vaccine-requirements-for-restaurants-are-now-necessary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/071add521a9043ffa23a041ef6ca8d60_1000-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Businesses requiring patrons, including children as young as five, to show proof of vaccination is now \u201cnecessary,\u201d Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) declared this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite our diligent and equitable vaccine distribution efforts throughout this year, unfortunately, our city continues to see a surge of COVID-19 Delta and now omicron cases,\u201d the Democrat mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/city\/en\/depts\/mayor\/press_room\/press_releases\/2021\/december\/VaccineRequirementsIndoorPublicPlaces.html\">said<\/a> on Tuesday, announcing the city\u2019s new vaccine requirement, which goes into effect January 3.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNew steps must be taken to protect the health and wellbeing of our residents,\u201d she continued, calling vaccine requirements \u201cnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis public health order requiring proof of vaccination to visit certain indoor public places is a necessary measure to ensure we can continue to enjoy our city\u2019s many amenities as we enter the new year,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The new rule applies to individuals ages five and older, requiring them to show proof of full vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new requirement will not eliminate COVID risk, but it will help ensure a much safer indoor environment for fully vaccinated Chicagoans, as well as for the employees working in these higher-risk settings,\u201d CDPH Commissioner Allison Arwady said in a statement, lecturing unvaccinated Chicagoans:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As we head further into the winter months, we must take this step now. With Omicron, I do expect to see many more COVID reinfections and breakthrough cases, but luckily the vaccines continue to protect very well against severe illness, hospitalization, and death\u2014and even more so when people have also had a booster shot. I remain most worried about the hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans who still have not received a single dose of COVID vaccine nor recovered from COVID infection. I\u2019m worried for their own health, but also for the risk they pose to others\u2019 health and to our hospital capacity\u2014and while we are in this concerning surge, we must limit that risk.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, Chicago also has an indoor mask mandate in place which \u201cwill remain in effect until the City of Chicago is through this Omicron-driven surge and the risk of overwhelming hospital capacity has passed,\u201d according to the mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago follows the lead of New York City, which is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/06\/bill-de-blasios-ultimatum-parents-get-your-child-vaccinated-or-cannot-go-indoor-restaurants\/\">requiring<\/a> children as young as five to show proof of vaccination in order to participate in many everyday activities, including dining at an indoor restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced a vaccine requirement for patrons of&nbsp;restaurants, bars, nightclubs, indoor entertainment facilities, gyms, and other meeting establishments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses requiring patrons, including children as young as five, to show proof of vaccination is now \u201cnecessary,\u201d Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) declared this week. \u201cDespite our diligent and equitable &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}