Is about 98-story tower service staff that he rises next to the Chicago River, and that he was vaccinated “by mistake,” as confirmed by George Miller, president of Loretto Hospital.
The COVID-19 vaccination of 72 Latino and African-American employees of Trump International Chicago Tower, outside the official schedule, provokes suspicions and an investigation by the Mayor’s Office.
In a statement to the staff, the executive said that he authorized the vaccination on March 10 and 11, at the request of residents of the Austin community, where the small 122-bed hospital is located that was chosen by the municipality at the time to start the vaccination campaign against the pandemic.
“At the time we were under the impression that restaurant and hospitality workers were considered essential and a priority to receive the vaccine,” Miller said. “Now I understand that it was a mistake, after conversations with the Chicago Department of Public Health,” added Miller, who denied favoritism or preferential treatment to Trump’s main real estate development in the city.
According to the vaccination schedule, hotel and restaurant personnel will only begin to be vaccinated on the 29th of this month.
Miller said the vaccines were from a regular batch received by the city and did not belong to the Protect Chicago Plus program launched by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to deliver extra doses to the 15 most affected neighborhoods by the pandemic, inhabited by Latinos and African Americans.
Andrew Buchanan, a spokesman for the Department of Public Health, told reporters that the city is “gathering details” of what happened because it was not informed about the vaccination, which was carried out in the tower itself.
Local media published that there was a “vaccination event” in the Trump Tower, by Miller’s decision, and that it was communicated in advance to the administrators of the project.
Bonni Pear, a spokeswoman for the hospital, reported that Loretto has sent vaccinators to schools, churches, women’s shelters and police stations in the south and west of the city. The event at Trump Tower was the first of its kind in a downtown skyscraper.
The former president and tycoon does not have a good relationship with Chicago, the third most populous city in the United States with 2.7 million inhabitants, because in 2017 he was declared “persona non grata” by the Chicago City Council, for his criticism of the high crime rates.
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