Over a dozen Chicago high school soccer players wanted the donation to highlight teen homelessness, which affected nearly 40,000 Illinois students in the last school year.
“We need to survive for us to be able to take the vaccine,” he said. “We want all the people that would like to wrestle to be able to get this vaccine. Putting parents, teachers and coaches, and the kids, in danger is a terrible idea.”
The department of health in Cook County says that it is investigating the incident. Management at the facility declined comment.
Joe Trost, a student-athlete advocate who has been one of the state’s foremost voices in the battle to allow the resumption of some athletic competition amid the coronavirus pandemic, says that such events are not uncommon, saying that they’ve been going on since the beginning of summer.