Lori Lightfoot: “Equity isn't part of our COVID-19 strategy. It is our strategy.”

Look, every mayor's going to tell you that they need more resources. What we've seen that's been successful is the things that I talked about before, but we've also I think done a lot with diversion at the police station.

We've got to make sure that we use every tool in our toolkit. And it's -- soft power is more, much more effective than the hard power of law enforcement for this particular problem.

I think, look, at the very beginning it was just getting out the basic information about the various clinical trials, the results of the effectiveness.

Unfortunately, some people like to politicize the pandemic. And that's not just something that happens on one side of the political divide.