Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Illinois’ top doctor and the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, will step down on March 14, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced.
The news comes as Illinois enters a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pritzker said he was loathe to accept Ezike’s resignation, but acknowledged that she had held one of the “hardest jobs in the world” during one of the toughest times in Illinois’ history, which began in January 2019 with the first diagnosed case of COVID-19 in Illinois has stretched for more than two years.
“All of the people, and all of their stories, I will carry always in my heart. I acknowledge and mourn with the families of all the lives lost; not just to COVID, but to gun violence, to suicide, to drug overdose, to racism, to cancer and all the other diseases and ills that public health officials and all of our partners work tirelessly to curb,” Ezike said.
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