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Call 1-800-Tribune Friday,December4,2020 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Optimism builds for relief bill McConnell and Pelosi discuss bipartisan plan for $908 billion By Andrew Taylor MORE COVERAGE Associated Press Vaccine priorities WASHINGTON— Optimism begin to take shape about delivering long-sought COVID-19 relief is building on States are drafting plans for who Capitol Hill after additional gets the first doses of the vac- rank-and-file lawmakers voiced cine when it becomes available support for a bipartisan, middle- this month, as the nation’s death of-the-road plan taking shape in toll surpassed 3,100 in a single the Senate and as top congres- day for the first time. sional leaders connected on the ■ British and American topic for the first time in months. officials spar over how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Britain had beaten the U.S. to D-Calif., and Senate Majority authorizing a vaccine, a debate Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. encompassing regulatory stand- — frequent rivals but proven ards and politics that has heated dealmakers — spoke on the up as wealthy countries vie for phone Thursday, a conversation the first shipments. that came the day after Pelosi signaled a willingness to make ■ Three former presidents say major concessions in search of a they’d be willing to take a vac- COVID-19 rescue package in the cine publicly to encourage all $1 trillion range. Americans to get inoculated. Pelosi’s spokesman an- Nation & World, Page 10 nounced the conversation, tweeting that it was “about their shared commitment to complet- ing an omnibus and COVID tum for finally passing a second relief as soon as possible.” major relief bill is undeniably “We had a good conversation. building, especially after Presi- Ithink we’re both interested in dent-elect Joe Biden and top getting an outcome, both on the congressional Democrats en- omnibus and on a coronavirus dorsed a $908 billion bipartisan package,” McConnell said. framework to build an agree- With COVID-19 caseloads ment. CHRIS SWEDA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE spiraling and the daily death toll Light up the night equaling records, the momen- TurntoVirus,Page9 Ben Kozak, 2, takes in the scene of arches adorned with holiday lights over a sidewalk in the 4100 block of North Francisco Avenue in Albany Park on Wednesday. Designer puppies, private jets AL DRAGO/THE NEW YORK TIMES House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, third from left, speaks to reporters as she walks to her office at the Capitol on Thursday. and a villa Chicago rappers In race for vaccine, charged in Mass. in tangled fraud plot pregnant left behind By Jason Meisner NINETEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT In an image from livestream video, attorney Mark Richards, right, Chicago drill rapper G Guidance fuzzy for those with child or weighing appears with Kyle Rittenhouse during a hearing on Thursday. Herbo grew up on the South- prospect because trials exclude pregnancy Rittenhouse lawyer east Side in an area dubbed “Terror Town,” a far cry from the world of private jets, By Alison Bowen something that has frustrated quits criminal case tropical villas and designer Dr. Emily Miller for years. Miller puppies. Hospital workers are under an is the assistant professor in the His youth, as described in immense amount of stress this Division of Maternal-Fetal Med- his blunt lyrics, was spent year. But help might be on the icine at Northwestern Medi- Fundraising bid called ‘opportunity for ... fraud’ dodging bullets and hanging way soon as a federal advisory cine’s Feinberg School of Medi- out on the violent streets committee recommended Tues- cine, where she has been closely By Stacy St. Clair third during summer protests in near 79th Street and Essex daythat they be first in line for following the lack of data on and Dan Hinkel Kenosha. He also has been an Avenue. But as his star rose vaccines. pregnant women and new vac- enthusiastic fundraiser, helping with collaborations with the But what if they are pregnant? cines. KENOSHA, Wis. – An attor- to secure $2 million for his likes of Nicki Minaj and Like all pregnant women, “As it turns out, pregnant ney for Kyle Rittenhouse indi- client’s bail. Chief Keef and money rolled health care workers will be women can be doctors and cated Thursday that he’d pull Prosecutors, however, have in, Herbo, whose real name is operating without much data, as nurses and respiratory thera- back from the teen’s criminal grown increasingly critical of Herbert Wright III, said he pregnant women have been ex- pists,” she said. “This is putting defense, hours after prosecutors Pierce’s frequent out-of-court started to realize it was time cluded from clinical trials so far. our pregnant health care work- in Wisconsin sought to block statements and fundraising ef- to move on from his past and Pregnant women are com- him from participating and al- forts, which have been aimed at embrace his newfound fame. monly excluded from research, TurntoVaccine,Page2 leged in a court filing that his the political right. “Honestly I’m just trying involvement with a fundraising In a motion filed Thursday to capitalize and build other effort “provides ample opportu- morning, Kenosha County As- people up,” Wright told the nity for self-dealing and fraud.” sistant District Attorney Thom- Tribune in an interview last Los Angeles civil lawyer John as Binger cited public records year. “I’m a firm believer that Tom Skilling’s forecast High 43 Low 28 M. Pierce has been the public and news reports as he alleged life is what you make it. … I face of the 17-year-old’s defense that Pierce has “significant per- been broke so many times. I Chicago Weather Center: Complete forecast on back page of A+E against a murder charge and sonal financial difficulties” and was supposed to be dead. I other counts in the three argued that he should not be was supposed to be in jail. $2.50 city and suburbs, $3.00 elsewhere months since the teen fatally shot two men and wounded a TurntoKenosha,Page8 TurntoRappers,Page8 173rd year No.339©Chicago Tribune 2 Chicago Tribune | Section1 | Friday,December4,2020 Vaccine The statement noted plans to bring up the topic data on the safety of the that with mRNA vaccines, on a call this Friday with vaccine in pregnant and likely to be the first avail- the collaborative. lactating individuals be- Continued fromPage1 able and which induce an Lactating women also cause they were excluded.” immune response, the have been left out of clinical Zahn said patients ers in a place where they theoretical risk of fetal trials, even though, as the should consider any avail- haven’t been given a lot of harm is very low. Society for Maternal-Fetal able data, patients’ individ- concrete guidance because Miller acknowledged Medicine’s statement ual risk factors and their they’ve been systematically that people have “lingering noted, “there is no biolog- “unique needs, desires and excluded.” questions” about ical plausibility for the ex- values.” This essentially results in COVID-19 and the new clusion of lactating wom- The CDC’s general “clinical experimentation vaccines. en.” guidelines for vaccinating on pregnant women, as “It has to be balanced Miller said this high- pregnant women, which vaccines are distributed against the risk of not get- lights that women deserve were last updated in 2016, and administered without ting the vaccine, which is more information. notes that the benefits, in the safeguards of research the risk of acquisition of “We need to be shifting general, “usually outweigh in place,” according to a (COVID-19), which has our mindset from this potential risks when the Society for Maternal-Fetal concrete and well-docu- mantra of we need to pro- likelihood of disease expo- Medicine statement re- mented risks,” she said. tect pregnant women from sure is high.” leased Tuesday.Miller is a “Through that lens, if we participating in trials, and Already, OB-GYNs member of the task force. can remember that there is instead shift it to we need to strongly encourage, for ex- In a conference call on no zero-risk option, then protect pregnant women ample, a flu vaccine, as vaccine progress Thursday the balance at this point from being excluded from pregnant women are simi- morning with the Infec- favors receiving the vac- these trials,” she said. larly more prone to getting tious Diseases Society of cine.” Miller said she will be sicker from the flu, because America, Dr. Kathleen The society criticized watching closely to see if of changes in the immune Neuzil, co-director of the the lack of available data the Centers for Disease system, heart and lungs National Institutes of and noted that if multiple Control and Prevention’s during pregnancy. Health’sCOVID-19 Preven- vaccines become available, Advisory Committee on The Illinois Department tion Network, acknowl- “some vaccines may be Immunization Practicesof- of Public Health has long edged pregnant women more suitable for pregnant fers any pregnancy-specific emphasized the impor- should be included in vac- women.” guidance. She also expects tance of health care pro- cine research. As much as the limited that, out of the many people viders’ advice to pregnant “We know that women data frustrates Miller, she involved in trials, some will women, noting that women of childbearing age make emphasized that if women become pregnant after tak- who received a recom- up a large proportion of are pregnant, or become ing the vaccine. mendation for a flu vaccine health care workers, make pregnant, and contract Patients should discuss and an offer of vaccination up a large proportion of COVID-19, they are at risk options with their OB- were six times more likely front-line responders,” she of getting very sick. GYNs. to be vaccinated, compared said. “So we really don’t “That’s super worri- “There isn’t a simple with women who did not have a vaccine for everyone, some,” she said. answer to questions about receive a recommendation THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE’S until we have a vaccine for Women considering be- whether pregnant people, or an offer of vaccination. 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More.”A comprehensive collection of the best holiday health care workers be of- Dr. Ann Borders, an OB- currently approved,” Chris- “Getting COVID-19 in cookies as curated from decades worth of reader sub- fered the vaccine if preg- GYN and executive direc- topher Zahn, the vice presi- pregnancy is incredibly se- missions to the Chicago Tribune’s annual Holiday Cookie nant. tor of the Illinois Perinatal dent of practice activities of rious,” she said. “Let’s em- Contest, these delicious recipes represent an eclectic In general, for pregnant Quality Collaborative, said the American College of power you to do everything, mix of traditional and modern recipes from diverse cul- women, the group recom- she expects vaccination Obstetricians and Gynecol- to use every tool in the tural background and skill levels. 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INSIDE Start now at Almanac Business 4 Lottery Business 4 PlayOurNews.com Bridge A+E 10 Obituaries Business 4 Comics A+E 10-11 Sudoku A+E 11 Crossword A+E 11 Television A+E 9 Horoscopes A+E 10 Weather A+E 12 3 Chicago Tribune | Section1 | Friday,December4,2020 CHICAGOLAND CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Seven-day toll is highest in nation State has seen 957 cases of COVID-19, raising the statewide total to deaths in last week 759,562 known and prob- able cases throughout the By Jamie Munks course of the pandemic. The state is also reporting a Illinois has recorded death toll of 12,830. more COVID-19 deaths The daily cases reported than any other state over the Thursday came out of a last seven days, and the batch of 106,778 tests, and seven-day average of the seven-day positivity rate COVID-19 deaths in Illinois for cases as a share of total climbed to a new high of 124 tests was 10.4%. on Thursday. The Illinois Department The state has recorded of Public Health cautioned 957 deaths over the last this week that some data seven days, far more than reported midweek was de- Texas, which had 806 fatali- layed from over the holiday ties over the same period, weekend. according to the federal As of Wednesday night, Centers for Disease Control 5,653 people were in the and Prevention. hospital with COVID-19, The state’s seven-day av- with 1,170 in intensive care erage death toll surpassed units and 693 on ventilators. the spring peak of 118, as Ezike on Thursday also state public health officials addressed the CDC’s adjust- reported an additional 192 ment to the recommended COVID-19 deaths. That quarantine period for peo- number matches a record ple who have been exposed that was shattered a day to someone with COVID-19. earlier, when 238 deaths The quarantine was re- were recorded. duced to 10 days from 14, “as The bleak reports come long as the individual does as the state readies for the not have any symptoms at mass distribution of a co- all,” she said. ronavirus vaccine that still ANTONIO PEREZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE “This does not mean the has to receive federal ap- Registered nurse Guadalupe Duran talks with a person before giving a free COVID-19 test at a testing site last month. person can’t develop symp- proval. toms on day 12 or 13, but we Gov. J.B. Pritzker on That won’t be enough to you’re going to have people of those will be in that next “As the FDA rolls out know from looking at all the Thursday said the state ex- inoculate the top priority over 65, people with multi- tier,” Ezike said. their recommendation, we data that the risk of that pects a first shipment of groups, hospital-related ple serious co-morbid con- It’s unclear whether the will get to know more about happening is between 1 and 109,000 doses of the vaccine workers and residents of ditions that we know the vaccines that are up for who it can be given to, from 10%,” Ezike said. “Alterna- between Dec. 13 and 19, “and long-term care facilities. Illi- virus preys upon and people federal approval will be able the lower age limit to is tively, a person can discon- then there will be hundreds nois Department of Public who form the critical infra- to be administered to chil- there an upper age limit, so tinue quarantine at seven of thousands of others that Health Director Dr. Ngozi structure of our society that dren if they are indeed those are pieces of informa- days if they have no symp- might come, assuming that Ezike said the state is still allow us to live life as we approved, because the ma- tion still yet to be finalized,” toms and they have a nega- there is approval of both of awaiting final word on who know it — that help us to jority of the people who Ezike said. tive test in the preceding 48 those vaccines, Pfizer and comes next. have food in the grocery participated in the trials The state on Thursday hours.” Moderna, before the end of “But what we think is stores and make sure that were over the age of 18, also reported 10,959 newly the year.” going to come out is that sanitation is picked up — all Ezike said. confirmed and probable [email protected] County health department investigating Make her day large wedding held at Northbrook hotel merry and Occurred day state on the same day Illinois planners, rather than the rooms and public spaces, a bright. public health officials re- individuals at the wedding. requirement of face cov- marked highest ported 9,757 new confirmed “They should know the erings in all indoor public number of deaths and probable COVID-19 rules,” she said of the facility areas and “a higher stand- cases and 238 COVID-19 hosting the event. ard” to host events. By Kaitlin Edquist deaths, the most deaths in a The notice will most “This incident is not rep- single day since the pan- likely not result in a fine resentative of our portfolio Health officials are inves- demic began. initially, but the hotel will be of hotels and the extraordi- tigating a large, mostly “It’s very irresponsible watched carefully moving nary levels of hospitality maskless gathering held at and it’s also irresponsible of forward to see if more offered by our hard-work- the Hilton Chicago/North- the hotel to host an event instances of violation occur. ing team members every brook Hotel Wednesday like that. They, too, have Ahealth department senior day,” corporate office offi- night — the same day Illi- breached the rules and they inspector was at the hotel cials said in a statement. nois passed a grim should be held responsible,” Thursday to examine the The hotel, 2855 Milwau- COVID-19 milestone. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said rest of the hotel’s operations kee Ave., has a Northbrook Photos and videos of the Thursday at his coronavirus and management, Rubin address and ZIP code, but it event first reported by CBS briefing in Chicago, in re- said. falls under the jurisdiction 2show crowded rooms full sponse to a question about Rubin said she views the of nearby Prospect Heights, of people hugging, eating, the wedding being held in wedding as a “potential according to Prospect drinking and talking in violation of the state’s gath- super-spreader” event. Heights City Administrator close proximity, the vast ering limits aimed at curb- To the health depart- Joe Wade. majority of whom were not ing the spread of co- ment’s knowledge, no one at Wade said the event was wearing masks. The event ronavirus. the wedding had a positive not initially reported to lo- was a wedding with about Pritzker said he’s con- confirmed case, but with a cal police at the time but 150 guests in attendance, cerned for the people who large percentage of asymp- they are now following up according to hotel officials. attended the wedding and tomatic infections and high with further investigation Dr. Rachel Rubin, senior the people they may go on community spread, Rubin and a violation notice of Horizon Pendant with Pavé Diamonds medical officer and co-lead to infect, as COVID-19 runs said they expect some of the their own. in 14K Yellow or White Gold for the Cook County De- “rampant” throughout the attendees to have been pos- Regarding the wedding’s partment of Public Health state. itive without knowing. impact on his city, Wade from $1,299 said during a news confer- “Here we have people She recommended that said he continues to urge ence Thursday that she felt who are in a concentrated everyone at the wedding, residents to maintain safe Chainincluded “profound dismay” after fashion, have the ability including servers and plan- practices and avoid large hearing about the wedding. now to go spread it to ners, as well as those who gatherings. He encouraged “This event should not everywhere that they re- were at the hotel unrelated residents to watch for any have happened,” she said. turn to, so I’m deeply wor- to the wedding, should symptoms in the coming “It’s put a lot of individuals ried for them and for the quarantine for 14 days. weeks. in danger.” communities that they re- The health department “Be careful, and try to be The hotel released a turn to, for their families, will request a guest list from thoughtful,” he said. “Be statement Thursday eve- and so on,” he said. “I hope the wedding party, Rubin safe with each other.” WoodfieldMall ning apologizing for hosting that each of them will iso- said. They will either reach The Illinois Hotel and LowerLevelnearStarbucks,847-995-0594 the wedding.General man- late and get a test.” out to the individuals di- Lodging Association, which NaHoku.com ager Holly Allgauer-Cir said County officials said they rectly or communicate represents hotels across the the pandemic has created are now investigating. Ac- through the wedding party state, issued a statement in challenges for the hospital- cording to the health de- that those in attendance response to the Hilton Chi- ity industry but that their partment, violations of the should quarantine. She said cago/Northbrook Hotel’s BRING hope “to keep the hotel state order banning indoor the department will not decision to host the event, afloat and employees work- dining and other indoor contact trace unless some- calling it unacceptable. ing should not outweigh congregations such as this one tests positive, but if “When I found out about health and safety.” could lead to arrest, a fine of someone does test positive, this situation, I sub- “While the event was $1,000 per offense and fur- they would then be able to sequently contacted public booked prior to the imple- ther actions. reference the guest list or health officials to determine mentation of the state’s lat- Rubin and fellow senior the event to find close the appropriate next steps est mitigation measures, we medical officer and co-lead contacts. and reminded hotel man- sincerely regret allowing Dr. Kiran Joshi released a Hilton corporate officials agement that they must this gathering to proceed joint statement prior to a said the Northbrook loca- abide by the Tier 3 miti- and our family apologizes to news conference to high- tion is independently gations and safety protocols our guests, employees, and light the gravity of the owned and operated, and to ensure the health of their HOME. the Chicagoland communi- situation, according to de- they have connected with employees and guests,” said ty,” Holly Allgauer-Cir said. partment officials. the hotel’s ownership to Michael Jacobson, the or- She said the hotel will “We are appalled that address expectations with ganization’s president and work with local and state this event was allowed to them. CEO, in a statement. “In health authorities to abide proceed,” they said in the “We were shocked to addition, we have reached SM by all guidelines moving joint statement. “We are learn that one of our inde- out to our hotel member- forward, as well as contact considering citing the hotel pendently owned and op- ship across the state to once tracing and testing recom- and are investigating our erated hotels chose to host again stress the importance YourGoodwill®purchasesfundjobtraining mendations. legal options today.” an event that disregarded of abiding by all health and andmoreinyourcommunity.Eventhose “It will take time, but we According to Rubin, offi- both local regulations and safety guidelines.” framesthatshowoffyourtwinpugs. hope to rebuild the trust of cials are still discussing le- Hilton’s brand standards,” our guests, staff and com- gal options, but notices of corporate officials said in a Tribune reporter Jamie munity have placed in us for violation would be issued to statement. Munks contributed. so many years,” she said in the hotel and other possible The Hilton website em- the statement. organizations involved, phasizes a “clean stay,” with kedquist@chicago The wedding occurred such as caterers or wedding frequent disinfection of tribune.com 4 Chicago Tribune | Section1 | Friday,December4,2020 Family of teacher killed following Lightfoot says she has ‘great ’19 party ‘frustrated’ at pace of case interest’ in By Mike Nolan ComEd case Ayear after the death of a teacher from an Orland Park Catholic elementary By Gregory Pratt school, her family says they remain frustrated over the slow progress in the Citing her experience as a federal criminal case against a retired priest prosecutor, Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thurs- charged in connection with her death. day said she’s been following the ComEd Shortly after 8 p.m. Dec. 4, 2019, bribery case that’s cast a shadow over Margaret “Rone” Leja and Elizabeth Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan Kosteck, who both worked at St. Michael but stopped short of saying he shouldn’t be School, were walking to their cars after reelected to his leadership post. leaving a holiday party when they were Lightfoot said she’s watched “with great struck by a car police said was driven by interest the number of people who’ve stood Paul Burak, who had retired in 2018 as up and said they will not vote for Mike pastor of St. Michael Catholic Church. Madigan as speaker of the House” and said Leja and Kosteck were taken to Silver he doesn’t seem to have enough votes to get Cross Hospital in New Lenox and Leja, 61, reelected at this time. of Tinley Park, died from her injuries that Lightfoot added that she’s also “watched night while Kosteck was injured. with great interest the number of people Burak has been charged with leaving the ZBIGNIEW BZDAK/CHICAGO TRIBUNE who’ve been silent and who haven’t stood scene of an accident involving death and Pallbearers bring Margaret “Rone” Leja’s casketin Orland Park on Dec. 10, 2019. up.” leaving the scene of an accident involving She did not address, however, whether injury. Leja’s family also has filed a Square mall, shortly be- were insufficient to support that charge.” Madigan should be reelected as speaker, wrongful-death lawsuit against him. fore Burak, according to If convicted of the most serious charge saying she would have more to say about the Leja’s family members “remain frus- authorities. of leaving the scene of an accident situation at a later time while expounding trated by the delay in the criminal Burak assured other involving death, Burak could face a prison on the need for residents to have faith in prosecution of this case and the continued partygoers that he was sentence of between four and 15 years, their elected officials. failure” of Burak “to follow the teachings OK to drive home after according to the state’s attorney’s office. “Our democracy depends upon the of the Catholic Church and confess what they expressed concern, Grace said Burak has not had to make people believing in leadership, the people he has done,” according to a statement according to Cook any physical appearances in court due to believing that the leaders stand for them, released Thursday by the family’s attorney. County prosecutors. his age and COVID-19 concerns. Asked that we are working hard every single day Leja The pace of the criminal case is due in Burak told investigators about Burak’s physical and emotional on behalf of the people and not on behalf of part to the COVID-19 pandemic which has he had consumed two condition, Grace described them as “fair” ourselves,” she said. slowed court proceedings throughout the alcoholic drinks at the and “about as best as can be expected.” “That doesn’t happen when there is a county court system, said Timothy Grace, party. “He still feels horrible about this,” Grace cloud that hangs, that doesn’t happen when Burak’s attorney. After striking the said. people feel like elected officials have been “We’re waiting for the courts to open women, according to Several months ago, Burak moved from completely compromised and have an back up,” he said. authorities, he drove his his Palos Heights home to the Bishop agenda that has nothing to do with doing The 74-year-old Burak has pleaded not Buick Regal down an Timothy Lyne Residence, operated by the the people’s business,” she said. guilty to charges. He was initially charged access road and pulled Archdiocese of Chicago on the grounds of Even though Lightfoot ran as a reform with aggravated driving under the influ- into the drive-through Holy Family Villa in Palos Park. candidate and is a former federal prose- ence, but that charge was later dropped. Kosteck lane of a restaurant, but Leja’s family filed a wrongful-death cutor, she has been reluctant to take on Grace said the case remains in the did not order anything, lawsuit against Burak a few weeks after Madigan directly even as the ComEd probe discovery phase with no trial date yet set. A before returning a short time later to the her death, and Kosteck has also sued has cut into his close political circle. There status hearing has been scheduled for Jan. parking lot of the Square Celt. Burak. is a practicality to the mayor’s hesitation: 12 but he said that no major update is At that point, police officers, paramedics Leja’s complaint was later amended to the speaker’s reputation for political retri- expected at that time. and other emergency personnel were on include the Archdiocese of Chicago as a bution has been decades in the making, and Following his arrest a day after the scene, but Burak did not tell anyone he had defendant. if he were to hang onto control of the incident, attorneys for Burak said the hit the women, authorities said. He was Cook County Circuit Court Judge Me- chamber, any criticism from Lightfoot retired priest takes medication for glau- driven home by another St. Michael priest. lissa Durkin last month denied a request by could imperil the city’s legislative agenda. coma and Parkinson’s. At the time charges Burak initially told investigators he the Archdiocese to dismiss the case, and And she made clear Thursday she wasn’t were announced, three days after the didn’t know he had hit anyone and gave them until Dec. 15 to file a response to just talking about the embattled speaker. crash, police said that health issues were believed he had struck a parking block as the lawsuit. “That’s not just a statement about Mike not a factor and declined to address how it he was trying to leave Square Celt. Before getting her teaching degree and Madigan, it’s a statement about all of us,” was determined Burak was under the Leja’s family learned in Januarythat the making a career change in her 40s, Leja she said. influence at the time of the incident. DUI charge had been dropped. In their had a long career as a forensic analyst and So far, 19 rank-and-file Democrats have Leja had worked for 1½ years as a wrongful death complaint, they allege that worked for the Cook County medical publicly opposed Madigangetting another technology coach at St. Michael and Burak was impaired when he got into his examiner’s office, according to a 2005 term as Illinois House speaker. While the previously taught at Mount Assisi Acade- vehicle. 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Stevenson High with a first look at the scheduled to attend classes Wednesdays, which would travel to or from the build- with their children attend- School District 125 is mov- district’s plan to resume remotely only. Then, start- be reserved for all-remote ing if a student’s group has ing in-person school at the ing forward with plans to some in-person schooling, ing Jan. 19, students would learning as well as deep in-person class for part of outset, but who perhaps bring students back into the starting with the second be placed in one of three cleaning of the school that school day. During that would become more com- building for classes through semester. Due to the groups. building, according to the break, curricular meetings fortable later in the se- ahybrid model that would COVID-19 pandemic, Over a three-week pe- district’s plan. held by faculty members mester, particularly if a include a combination of Stevenson High School — riod, students in each group Under the hybrid sched- also would take place two COVID-19 vaccine becomes in-person and online in- the lone school in the Lin- would have the option to ule, school would start ear- days a week from 11 a.m. widely available. struction stWarting Jan. 19. colnshiAre-based district —Nattend class in-pTerson on lier thanE it currently does, atDuntil 11:30 a.m., according to “We wanted to maximize At the Nov. 16 school has done all-remote in- eight predefined half days. 7:45 a.m., and would con- the district’s plan. the number of days that a student could choose to be on campus. And I think choose is the appropriate word here,” Principal Troy Gobble told the board. “And most importantly for me, when I consider the senior students right now, I know that many seniors, who might not feel comfortable, for whatever reason, com- ing back at this point are going to want to come back to the building at some Miracle-Ear Hearing Centers are looking for qualified people to test point before the school year is over.” their latest product,The Miracle-Ear® Genius for FREE*! Groups of parents and students demonstrated in October calling for families Here’s the catch:You must have difficulty hearing and understanding to have a choice for how students get instruction in background noise,and your hearing must fall in the range of the during the pandemic. Many parents called for a hybrid hearing aid.People that are selected will evaluate Miracle-Ear’s latest model or one that allowed advanced digital hearing solution – the Miracle-Ear Genius. 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When he vis- thing that prosecutors said ed statements naming Ne- Willis released Neely on victims, now 21 ited her Oak Park happened multiple times ely as the person who as- $100,000 bail but gave him a CPD employment and 38, delayed re- apartment the through March 2015. saulted her, prosecutors curfew and barred him porting the as- next month, he In winter months, Neely said. from contact with victims. By William Lee saults to author- told her he was a volunteered to drop offstu- Neely’s attorney, Adam Neely’s work status with ities. The 21-year- cop, according to dents at home after prac- Sheppard, said his client Chicago police was uncer- A Chicago police officer old victim filed a Murphy. She tice, but he allegedly took was a good cop with more tain. In a statement appeared before a judge police report in bought wine but the victim to his basement , than 10 honorable mentions Wednesday evening, au- Wednesday facing felony late September af- Neely left her glass unat- where he would give her and that he has been coop- thorities confirmed an in- allegations that he sexually ter telling her boyfriend, tended to get him a glass of alcohol and sexually assault erative with investigations ternal investigation but assaulted a high school stu- who encouraged her to con- water at his request. Shortly her, Murphy said. by the Bureau of Internal wouldn’t say whether Neely dent and a young woman tact authorities, Assistant after drinking from her Once he even pulled her Affairs and the Illinois De- would remain on active years before he was hired as State’s Attorney James glass, she became disori- from English class with a partment of Children and duty. “If it’s determined the acop in 2017. Murphy told the court. ented and her vision be- false story so he could Family Services. Neely has a allegations are true, appro- Winford L. Neely, 39, of The second victim re- came blurry, Murphy said. assault her in a school book long history of coaching priate disciplinary action the Sauganash neighbor- ported the assault last year Neely then allegedly as- room, Murphy alleged. youth basketball, volleyball will be taken,” the statement hood, was charged with five to Chicago police, where saulted the woman on her Neely left the school to and football, Sheppard said, read. counts of criminal sexual Neely told her he worked in bed but left once she began become a Chicago police and his client has no other Sheppard said Neely had abuse for alleged assaults on 2013, which wasn’t true at bleeding, prosecutors said. officer in 2017 but contin- such allegations against been working his regular victims dating to 2013, ac- that time, Murphy pointed The second victim was a ued to reach out to the him. shift during the investiga- cording to Cook County out. Because the alleged 15-year-old student and victim through social media “He was a beloved tion and planned to contin- prosecutors. His attorney incident occurred in Oak basketball player at an un- as recently as October, Mur- basketball coach with no ue working unless told oth- proclaimed his innocence, Park, the case was trans- named school while Neely phy said. allegations by anybody at erwise. saying he was a family man ferred to police there, and worked as a security guard The day after the victim the high school of any Neely is scheduled to and devoted coach. the woman implicated Ne- and basketball coach at her filed a police report, Neely misconduct other than the return to court on Dec. 23. During a bail hearing ely in a video interview. school, authorities said. Ne- sent her a friend request on accuser in our case,” Shep- broadcast on YouTube, The 38-year-old victim ely allegedly began sexually Snapchat that she ignored, pard said in a telephone Tribune reporter Megan prosecutors told Judge said she met Neely on a assaulting the girl on school Murphy said. She gave po- interview after Wednes- Crepeau contributed. Someone shot at 4 people in a Kia in Lawndale After the car crashed, 2 people were found dead and 2 injured, police say By Katherine senger seat and Banks sat Rosenberg-Douglas directly behind her, James said. Both died from multi- Two people in their ple injuries resulting from early 20s were killed amotor vehicle striking a Wednesday night after fixed object and their their car was shot at and it deaths were ruled homi- crashed on the West Side, cides, the Cook County injuring two others, au- medical examiner’s office thorities said. determined following au- About 8 p.m., officers topsies Thursday. were called to the 4300 Two others who were in block of West Roosevelt the vehicle were injured. Road in the Lawndale The driver, a 25-year-old neighborhood, according man, was not shot but to Chicago police. Two treated for minor injuries people in a white 2015 suffered in the crash and four-door Kia Optima released, James said. A sedan were found dead 25-year-old woman sitting after someone in a passing behind him on the driver’s dark blue 2020 Chevrolet side was shot in the lower Equinox SUV shot at the back and treated at Loyola Kia, causing it to hit a University Medical Center parked car near the inter- in Maywood, where she section of Laramie Avenue had been listed in critical and Roosevelt, according condition. to Karie James, a police Police indicated there spokeswoman. also had been four people Kiondria Richards, 21, in the Equinox, which of East 142nd Place in subsequently crashed in Dolton and Nautica Banks, the 5800 block of West 23, of the 700 block of Roosevelt Road. Its occu- CHICAGO POLICE South Kenneth Avenue in pants all ran from the Chicago police released this picture of one of two people wanted for the killing of Earl Miller, 74, on West 103rd Street. Chicago, were both pro- scene. No arrests had been nounced dead at 8:26 p.m., made. Boy, 15, accused of beating man according to the medical examiner’s office. Rich- kdouglas@chicago ards was in the front pas- tribune.com with bat, setting his body on fire 4 killed when driver tries By Rosemary Sobol down near a gangway. A to evade police in Berkeley bloodied bat and lighter A 15-year-old boy has fluid were found nearby, been charged with beating a police said. 74-year-old man with a Miller suffered trauma to By Katherine duct a traffic stop, but the baseball man and then set- the head and severe burns, Rosenberg-Douglas driver “fled the scene” at ting his body on fire near a police said. high speed, Larem wrote vacant lot on the Far South In an earlier community Four people died in a in an email. At the inter- Side in September, accord- alert issued by police, the crash this week in west section of Bohlander and ing to Chicago police. attackers were described as suburban Berkeley after Taft avenues, the driver The boy, not identified African American males, the driver attempted to missed or ignored a stop because of his age, was cited one of them wearing a black evade police, authorities sign and as it moved into in a juvenile petition with graphic T-shirt, gray sweat- said Thursday. the intersection, the car murder and concealment of pants with white stripes on About 11 p.m. Monday was hit by a semitrailer, a homicidal death, police the sides, a multicolor back- an officer with the Berke- Larem said. said. He was picked up pack and a paper mask. The ley Police Department The driver and three around 12:30 p.m. Wednes- other one was wearing saw a vehicle parked in an people who were in the day by the Great Lakes light-colored jeans, a black alley behind a retail plaza car died from injuries they Regional Task Force in the hoodie and white gym at 5555 St. Charles Road, suffered in the collision, 1100 block of South Hamil- shoes, police said. according to Chief Tim Larem said. The driver of ton Avenue, which is the Chicago police said they Larem. It wasn’t immedi- the semi was not injured, address of the Juvenile Jus- This picture is of the second of two people wanted in the are still looking for the other ately clear what type of Larem said. tice Center in Chicago. fatal beating of a man with a baseball bat. attacker and urged anyone vehicle it was, but Larem The Cook County med- The boy was identified as with information to call said its lights were off and ical examiner’s office had one of two people who used fire around 8:30 p.m. Sept. wood neighborhood. police, 312-747-8271. no license plate was vis- not released the names of abat to pummel Earl Miller, 22 in the 200 block of West Responding officers ible. the deceased as of Thurs- 74, and then set his body on 103rd Street in the Fern- found Miller lying face- [email protected] The officer tried to con- day. Final sentencing set for man who said he was missing Aurora boy By Dan Sewell but that the judge information about ment admitting that he from his own family, the FBI when his father dropped Associated Press also wanted to see Rini’s mental and claimed he was Timmothy said. him off at Greenman Ele- results of a pre- physical health. Pitzen, an Aurora boy who Rini’s DNA was already mentary School in Aurora CINCINNATI — A fed- sentencing investi- His attorney disappeared at age 6 in 2011. on file because of his crimi- on May 11, 2011. eral judge on Wednesday set gation before offi- didn’t respond im- Rini had told authorities nal record. He has served He was picked up shortly final sentencing for Dec. 15 cially entering his mediately to an he had just escaped captors time for burglary and van- after by his mother, Amy for an Ohio man who falsely sentence. emailed request who sexually abused him dalism. Fry-Pitzen, who took him claimed to be long-missing Court records for comment. Rini, for years. He twice portrayed him- on a three-day trip to a zoo Aurora boy Timmothy show the deadline of Medina, Ohio, When confronted with self in Ohio as a juvenile and water parks before she Pitzen. U.S. District Judge for the investiga- Rini was arrested by DNA results proving he victim of sex trafficking, and was found dead by suicide in Michael Barrett early this tion has been ex- FBI agents in April wasn’t Pitzen, Rini said he in each case was identified aRockford motel room. year told Brian Michael tended repeatedly during 2019. He pleaded guilty to had watched a story about after being fingerprinted, Notes she left behind Rini, now 25, that he must the pandemic. aggravated identity theft. Timmothy on ABC’s “20/ authorities have said. stated her son was safe but serve two years behind bars The report likely includes He signed a court docu- 20” and wanted to get away Timmothy Pitzen was 6 would never be found. 9 Chicago Tribune | Section1 | Friday,December4,2020 CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., at lectern, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers hold a news conference on virus relief Thursday. Virus Ill., over a provision much braced the $908 billion ap- sought by Republicans and proach from moderate McConnell in particular Sens. Collins and Joe Continued fromPage1 that would give a liability Manchin, D-W.Va., among shield to businesses, uni- others. Some conservatives, in- versities and other organi- It would establish a $300 cluding Republicans from zations against COVID-19- per week jobless benefit, COVID-19 hotspots like related lawsuits. send $160 billion to help North Dakota and Iowa, McConnell himself said a state and local govern- said they were comfortable huge drop in Democratic ments, boost schools and with an aid package carry- demands — from more than universities, revive popular ing the almost $1 trillion $2 trillion to less than $1 “paycheck protection” sub- price tag. Sen. Kevin trillion — was “at least sidies for businesses, and Cramer, R-N.D., said the movement in the right di- bail out transit systems and bipartisan plan is “the right rection.” airlines. balance of compromise and And President Donald “In the spirit of compro- it’s a number that’s doable.” Trump weighed in to sup- mise we believe the biparti- Added Lindsey Graham, port the idea. Obtaining his san framework introduced R-S.C.: “There’s a bipartisan necessary signature can be a by Senators yesterday package for $908 billion bit of a high-wire act, espe- should be used as the basis that will really help people.” cially since any COVID-19 for immediate bipartisan, The path forward is clut- relief is likely to be added to bicameral negotiations,“ tered with obstacles, how- acatchall spending bill. Pelosi and Schumer said. ever, including a tight time “I think they are getting They said they would try to frame and hard feelings very close and I want it to build upon the approach, from months of futile talks happen,” Trump said. which has support in the and a contentious election. At stake is whether to House from the bipartisan But the $908 billion cost provide at least some “problem solvers“ coalition. is what many Republicans, COVID-19 aid now rather The statement was a sig- McConnell included, sig- than wait until Biden takes nificant concession by Pel- naled they were willing to office Jan. 20. Businesses, osi and Schumer, who accept this summer. especially airlines, restau- played hardball this fall McConnell, his leverage rants and health providers, during failed preelection apparently bolstered after are desperate for help as discussions with the admin- the election, continues to caseloads spiral and deaths istration on a costlier bill. take a hard line, insisting in spike. Money to help states They wanted a more gener- Crossword a Thursday floor speech distribute vaccines is ous unemployment benefit that any relief package be needed, and supplemental and far more for state and limited to consensus items pandemic unemployment local governments. Their like another round of “pay- aid that provides additional embrace of the $908 billion check protection“ aid to weeks of jobless benefits measure was a retreat from businesses, funding to dis- expires at the end of the asecret $1.3 trillion offer the tribute vaccines, and aid to month. two Democrats gave Mc- schools. Biden is supporting an Connell just on Monday. “Why should these im- additional aid package “In the spirit of compro- pactful and noncontrover- that’s as large as possible mise, Speaker Pelosi and I sial life-preservers be de- now. He said Wednesday believe that the bipartisan layed one second longer?” that an aid package devel- framework introduced on McConnell said. “At long oped by moderates Tuesday should be used as last, let’s do what Congress “wouldn’t be the answer, the basis, as a framework for does when we want an but it would be the immedi- immediate bipartisan nego- outcome. Let’s make law on ate help for a lot of things.” tiations,“ Schumer said. “Of all the subjects where we He wants a relief bill to pass course, we and others will agree.” Congress now, with more offer improvements but we Later, McConnell met aid to come next year. believe with good faith ne- with Republicans who are Biden’s remarks followed gotiations we could very working the scaled-back, an announcement by Pelosi well come to an agree- bipartisan measure, includ- and Senate Democratic ment.“ ing Sens. Susan Collins, R- leader Chuck Schumer of The new plan includes a Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R- New York supporting the liability shield for busi- Alaska, and Mitt Romney, almost $1 trillion approach nesses and other organiza- R-Utah. Across Capitol Hill, as the “basis” for discus- tions that have reopened an allied bipartisan “prob- sions. their doors during the pan- lem solvers” group claimed The announcement ap- demic. It’s the first time growing momentum at an peared aimed at budging Pelosi and Schumer have outdoor news conference. McConnell, who so far has shown a willingness to con- A key McConnell ally, been unwilling to abandon a sider the idea, a top priority Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, $550 billion Senate GOP of McConnell, and Durbin’s said he is negotiating with plan that failed twice this involvement suggests a level fellow Judiciary Committee fall. of seriousness that had not member Dick Durbin, D- The Democrats em- been previously seen. ByJacquelineE.Mathews.©2020TribuneContentAgency,LLC.Allrightsreserved. 12/4/20 ACROSS 45Fordsubcompact Solutions NoticeofProposedPropertyTaxIncreaseforBerkeley 1Stir-frypan ofthe’70s 4Rubenoughto 46Kiltfold SchoolDistrictNo.87. makesore 49Getup 9Lostvitalfluid 51BlackorBering 13Bepartialto 54Isolationfor I. 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Other states are By Sam Metz struggling with where to put and Ryan J. Foley prisoners in the pecking Associated Press order. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey States drafted plans said he wants teachers to get Thursday for who will go to priority so that schools can the front of the line when stay open. Two California the first doses of COVID-19 lawmakers asked for that, vaccine become available too, saying distance learning later this month, as U.S. is harming students’ educa- deaths from the outbreak tion. eclipsed 3,100 in a single day, “Our state’s children can- obliterating the record set not afford to wait,” wrote last spring. Republican Assemblyman With initial supplies of Jordan Cunningham and the vaccine certain to be Democratic Assemblyman limited, governors and other Patrick O’Donnell. “This is state officials are weighing too important to overlook or both health and economic sweep aside.” concerns in deciding the Texas is putting hospital order in which the shots will staff, nursing home workers be dispensed. and paramedics at the top of States face a Friday dead- the list, followed by outpa- line to submit requests for tient medical employees, doses of the Pfizer vaccine pharmacists, funeral home and specify where they workers and school nurses. should be shipped, and Nursing home patients did many appear to be heeding JAE C. HONG/AP not make the cut for the very nonbinding guidelines Dr. Rafik Abdou checks on a COVID-19 patient last month at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles. first phase. adopted this week by the Advocates strongly ex- Centers for Disease Control Strip, authorities initially ing to the tally kept by Johns slipping deeper into crisis, zations and cases in the U.S. pressed frustration over the and Prevention to put health put nursing home patients Hopkins University. That’s with perhaps the worst yet have been on a fairly steady way some states are putting care workers and nursing in the third phase, behind more than the number of to come — in part because of rise for weeks, sometimes medical workers ahead of home patients first. police officers, teachers, air- people killed on 9/11, and the delayed effects from breaking records for days on nursing home residents. But they’re also facing a port operators and retail shattered the old mark of Thanksgiving, when mil- end. “It would be unconscion- multitude of decisions about workers. But they said 2,603, set on April 15, when lions of Americans disre- Keeping health care able not to give top priority other categories of resi- Wednesday that they would the New York metropolitan garded warnings to stay workers on their feet is to protect the population dents, some of them specific revise that plan to conform area was the epicenter of the home and celebrate only considered vital to dealing that is more susceptible or to their states, some of them to the CDC guidance. U.S. outbreak. with members of their with the crisis. And nursing vulnerable to the virus,” said vital to their economies. Plans for the vaccine are The number of Ameri- household. home patients have proven John Sauer, head of Lead- Colorado’s draft plan, being rolled out as the cans in the hospital with the Health authorities had highly vulnerable to the ingAge in Wisconsin, a which is being revised, puts surging pandemic swamps coronavirus likewise hit an warned that the numbers virus. Patients and staff group representing non- ski resort workers who U.S. hospitals and leaves all-time high Wednesday at could fluctuate strongly be- members at nursing homes profit long-term care facili- share close quarters in the nurses and other medical more than 100,000, accord- fore and after Thanksgiving, and other long-term care ties. second phase of vaccine workers shorthanded and ing to the COVID Tracking as they often do around centers account for 39% of He added: “I can’t think distribution, in recognition burned out. Nationwide the Project. The figure has more holidays and weekends. Be- the nation’s COVID-19 of a more raw form of of the $6 billion industry’s coronavirus is blamed for than doubled over the past cause of reporting delays, deaths. ageism than that. The popu- linchpin role in the state’s over 275,000deaths and 14 month. And new cases per the figures often drop, then As authorities draw up lation that is most vulnera- economy. million confirmed infec- day have begun topping rise sharply days later as their priority lists for the ble to succumbing to this In Nevada, where offi- tions. 200,000, by Johns Hopkins’ state and local health agen- vaccine, firefighter groups virus is not going to be given cials have stressed the im- The U.S. recorded a count. cies catch up with the back- asked the Minnesota gover- priority? I mean, that just portance of bringing tour- record 3,157 deaths on The three main bench- log. nor to be placed in the first says we don’t value the lives ists back to the Las Vegas Wednesday alone, accord- marks showed a country Still, deaths, hospitali- group. The Illinois plan of people in long-term care.” British, US officials scrap over ‘vaccine nationalism’ Fauci: Regulators “We’ve got the best medi- Jeremy Farrar, director of cal regulators,” Williamson the Wellcome Trust and a more careful than said. “We’re a much better scientific adviser to the UK counterparts country than every single British government. “Scien- one of them.” ce has always been the exit By Benjamin Mueller Those remarks drew eye strategy from this horren- The New York Times rolls from British scientists dous pandemic — that scien- but also provoked more seri- ce has been global.” LONDON — British and ous concerns that any chest- There have been more U.S. officials sparred Thurs- beating by government min- than 14 million confirmed day over how Britain had isters since Britain became coronavirus cases in U.S. and beaten the United States to the first Western country to almost another 1.7 million in authorizing a coronavirus authorize a coronavirus vac- the U.K., according to Johns vaccine, a debate encom- cine risked undermining the Hopkins University. The passing regulatory stand- public’s faith in one. U.S. has the most COVID-19 ards and politics that has Several top lawmakers in deaths with almost 276,000, heated up as wealthy coun- Prime Minister Boris John- while the U.K. leads Europe tries vie to receive the first son’s government have in- with just over 60,000. shipments of vaccines. correctly cast Britain’s split The British government KSENIA KULESHOVA/THE NEW YORK TIMES Dr. Anthony Fauci, direc- with the European Union as Wednesday outlined the Doses of the Pfizer vaccine, developed with Germany-based pharmaceutical company tor of the National Institute the reason it authorized a complicated logistics in- BioNTech are being packaged a Pfizer plant in Puurs, Belgium, for shipment to Britain. of Allergy and Infectious vaccine first. In fact, Britain volved in its trying to distrib- Diseases, said British regula- remains under the bloc’s ute the coronavirus vaccine. vaccine meant it was going emails in recent days outlin- The government has not tors had not scrutinized the regulatory umbrella when it Roughly 800,000 doses of to be given only at 50 British ing plans for scheduling the said when other employees data as carefully as their U.S. comes to drug and vaccine the Pfizer vaccine, devel- hospitals to begin with. The shots. A government advis- of the National Health Serv- counterparts in the Food approvals, and was able to oped with BioNTech, a vaccine must be transported ory committee has sug- ice would be eligible for and Drug Administration. move more quickly because smaller German company, at South Pole-like tempera- gested that older or more vaccines. Essential workers, “We have the gold stand- of European regulations en- were being packaged at the tures and in trays of 975 vulnerable health workers, such as teachers, transport ard of a regulatory approach abling it to make determina- company’s Belgian manu- doses. and doctors and nurses who workers and emergency with the FDA,” Fauci said tions on its own in public facturing plant for shipment But already Thursday, work with fragile patients, medical workers, would not Thursday. “The U.K. did not health emergencies. to Britain. euphoria among British would be among the first in be vaccinated until after do it as carefully, and they While, as a political mat- How and when they will health officials and lawmak- line. people 50 and older and got a couple of days ahead.” ter, Brexit may have made it arrive is being kept secret for ers of having authorized a But by Thursday, hospital those with underlying Gavin Williamson, Brit- easier for Britain to autho- security reasons, the com- vaccine was giving way to a executives appeared to be health problems. ain’s education secretary, rize the vaccine early, the pany said, although the BBC realization of the difficult having to change their plans: The advisory committee said Thursday that Britain divorce has made the job of reported Thursday that choices involved in how to The government put a pri- plans had made nursing had won the race to autho- its medical regulators more some doses were being administer it. ority on vaccinating nursing home residents a top pri- rize the first fully tested difficult in other ways. transported by the Eurotun- Hospitals had been pre- home workers and people ority, but they will have to coronavirus vaccine be- “Vaccine nationalism has nel between France and paring to vaccinate doctors age 80 and older with previ- wait until the government cause its regulators were no place in COVID or other Britain. and nurses in the country’s ously scheduled appoint- grapples with the added better than the French, Bel- public health matters of The logistics of moving, National Health Service ments at hospitals that have complication of distributing gians or Americans. global significance,” said defrosting and preparing the first, even sending internal the vaccine. vaccines beyond hospitals. 3 ex-presidents willing to get vaccine publicly By Will Weissert that when it’s been made for available by the end of this W. Bush’s chief of staff, Associated Press people who are less at risk, I year. Each product also re- Freddy Ford, told CNN that will be taking it. quires two doses, meaning the former president re- WASHINGTON— Three “I may end up taking it on shots will be rationed in the cently asked him to meet former presidents say they’d TV or having it filmed, just early stages. with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the be willing to take a co- so that people know that I Still, former President Bill nation’s top infectious dis- ronavirus vaccine publicly, trust this science.” Clinton would “definitely” ease expert, and Dr. Debo- once one becomes available, That may not be possible be willing to get a vaccine, as rah Birx, the White House to encourage all Americans for the foreseeable future, soon as one is “available to coronavirus response coor- to get inoculated against a though. The Food and Drug him, based on the priorities dinator, to let them “know disease that has already Administration will con- determined by public health that, when the time is right, killed more than 275,000 sider authorizing emer- officials,” spokesman Angel he wants to do what he can people nationwide. gency use of two vaccines Urena said. to help encourage his fellow Former President Barack made by Pfizer and Mod- “And he will do it in a citizens to get vaccinated.” Obama said during an epi- erna later this month, but public setting if it will help The only other living for- PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP 2010 sode of SiriusXM’s “The Joe current estimates project urge all Americans to do the mer president, Jimmy Cart- Bill Clinton, from left, Barack Obama and George W. Bush Madison Show” that aired that no more than 20 million same,” Urena said Thursday. er, 96, hasn’t said if he’d seek say they’ll get a COVID-19 vaccine when available to them. Thursday: “I promise you doses of each vaccine will be Former President George apublic vaccination.