From the Editorial Board: Chicago is lucky to have a formidable health care sector and thousands of dedicated front-line workers. They held the line and these competitive hospital systems also learned ways to cooperate that can aid the city in the future.
As the Illinois indoor mask mandate imposed in response to COVID-19 ends, a maskless customer leaves a Target store on Chicago's West Division Street on Feb. 28.
Lightfoot also noted that much has been learned from COVID-19 about delivering health care to struggling communities in Chicago, especially through the effort to vaccinate everyone. While acknowledging vaccination deserts remained in some neighborhoods, a consequence, she said, of misinformation and fear, Lightfoot said that city health officials had learned the benefits of working with closely trusted community leaders and of the city being willing to literally carry vaccines from door to door.
Mask mandates have been dropped all around the city in recent days, a worry for some. But here’s the thing. When those requirements were introduced by both city and state officials, they were driven by hard data. Now, Lightfoot said, those same metrics by which the limitations on personal freedom were first justified indicate that they can be relaxed. And so they should be.
Kids pay a heavy price when they are masked; if the data doesn’t support the benefit of a mandate, it’s time for them to see each other’s faces in the classroom, at least where other health circumstances allow.
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