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we are joined by dr. patel, former white house health care policy director in the obama administration. good afternoon. chicago is a good example of what so many cities across the country are facing. new mandates to deal with this covid surge that s still happening. questions about what kids are supposed to do as they head back to school. reporter: what we know, as you mentioned, chicago joining cities like new york, los angeles, san francisco as well as new orleans who have these vaccine mandates in place. what it looks like here in chicago is that anybody 5 years of age and older has to present a vaccination card showing that they are fully vaccinated. your 16-year-old and older, you have to show photo i.d. with that. you can t get into bars, restaurants, any indoor entertainment facilities like bowling alleys without being
we re seeing chicago and philadelphia following the lead of other cities like new york, los angeles, san francisco, as well as new orleans who have had these vaccine mandates in place for several weeks now. but it looks like here in chicago as you mentioned, anyone age 5 and older must show proof of fully vaccination, and if you re 16 and older you have to provide i.d. to enter establishments like bars and restaurants as well as gyms and other indoor entertainment facilities like bowling alleys. the city says, look, this is a way to try and stop these surges of infection that we re seeing. keep in mind, and to give you some perspective, we re talking about 23% of all kids here in the city ages 5 to 11 that are fully vaccinated, so certainly this is going to put some restrictions on a lot of families in the city here. we had a chance to talk to some business owners who have mixed reactions. i want you to listen to what one restaurant owner had to say about this. we had to pivot. we ha
employees go home late at night that s the nature of our industry, i m worried they will get accosted or worse. i would tell mr. bragg that he needs to prosecute he needs to protect his citizens. steve: absolutely. do you think he is going to be listening to the business leaders? i know the business leaders, your group, has been very encouraged by the fact that now a law enforcement officer, former cop, eric adams is the new mayor. love that. but now you know, as a cop, you can arrest people but it s the d.a. who prosecutes people and this guy when you look at the list, he is not going to prosecute marijuana misdemeanors, resisting arrest or interfering with arrest, prostitution, trespassing, turnstile jumping, which means we are going to see more trespassing, turnstile jumping and lawlessness. the resisting arrest i find as a citizen is extremely