As the latest deadline for Chicago police officers to get the COVID-19 vaccine came and went Wednesday, up to 681 police employees — or 5.5% of the department — could be refusing to get the vaccine without a valid accommodation in place.
Under a court-ordered arbitrator’s ruling in February, the approximately 12,000 employees of the Chicago Police Department had until April 13 to get the second shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or the first shot of the Johnson & Johnson version, the Chicago Tribune reports.





