Lori Lightfoot: “It's reckless and irresponsible. ... It is frightening. ... It's an absolutely the ugly side of politics. And we have…”

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.

We're in a good, I think, a place with both our Governor and the White House.

I get that people are scared. This Omicron surge is real. And we're doing everything that we can across our city to mitigate it.

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.