CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- If you work for the City of Chicago, Friday is the last day to receive your second COVID vaccination in order to meet the city’s deadline for being fully vaccinated.
Any City of Chicago employee who is not fully vaccinated by Oct. 15 must submit to regular COVID testing; and to be considered fully vaccinated - two weeks after your final shot - you must have your last shot by Friday.
Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said the city doesn’t yet have a complete handle on how many of its workers are vaccinated.
"As we start to see people putting in their vaccination records, complying with that, we will have a better sense of what those numbers are. I don't expect to have anything to share publicly until at least that October 15 deadline, so that there is time for people to be putting in that information," Dr. Arwady said.
Dr. Arwady said without an approved medical or religious exemption, all employees will have to be vaccinated.
"We know this is the most important thing for workplace safety. More than testing, more than distancing. It’s vaccination," Dr. Arwady said.
The only people exempt from Mayor Lightfoot’s vaccination mandate are aldermen, because they’re elected and not direct employees of the mayor.
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