Mayor Lightfoot has been voted out of office. The police superintendent has left. But the doctor who advised Chicagoans about how to live our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic is still here and has no plans to step down.
"There are certainly people, I am sure, who are frustrated by me or by my department, but, by and large, we’ve tried to really do our best to be really transparent and straightforward with Chicagoans," says Dr. Allison Arwady, the city’s public health commissioner.Public health is what she does and wants to continue to do, she says.SUBSCRIBE TO FOX 32 CHICAGO ON YOUTUBE
These days, Arwady spends about 10% of her time dealing directly with COVID but more time tackling "fallout" from the disease: mental health issues, substance abuse and funding to maintain the measures that she says have made Chicago better prepared when the next pandemic comes. Early in the pandemic, Arwady says "random Chicagoans" would approach her, asking for medical advice."I did get some scary mail at my house," she says. "There are a lot of people out there, including people who don’t live in Chicago, who are not real happy with public health leaders."Arwady says she tested positive for the coronavirus just once, last August.
"I was never anybody who wanted to be recognized on the street, certainly not for a disease," she says.
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