The dispute is over what sort of disability benefits Chicago police officers deserve if they contracted COVID-19 before the vaccine was available.
) that said police officers who contracted COVID-19 before vaccines were available are presumed to have gotten it on the job — meaning that if they die, their family would receive line-of-duty death benefits.“But if you survive COVID and become disabled from it, you’re out of luck,” she said Tuesday at a news conference at Chicago City Hall. Her brother was unable to attend at his doctor’s advice that it would be unhealthy and too stressful, she said.
Cordova Nestad said she has a hard time breathing and that it hurts to breathe; she worries about her family and teenage sons. Lightfoot said her office took measures to protect first responders, especially early in the pandemic, and that then, and now, her heart goes out to everyone struggling with COVID-19.
“No one gets special treatment because of who they are, or to whom they’re related,” Lightfoot said, “and that doesn’t change whether in a week before an election or any other time of the year.”
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