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Sick that never thought they would. >> is there any point where you're going to feel the need that you need to put in some new mitigation efforts, a don't call it a mandate mask mandate if you will, walking up to the line. what are you considering for your part of the county? >> last year i had a mask mandate in place, we had the surge that happened last summer. at that time it was still new, still a lot of unknowns about transmission. there was a point in time we thought it was transmitted off surfaces. we didn't have a vaccine then. we have a vaccine now. that is the answer. if someone wants...

Or proof of a negative covid test within 72 hours. so those were already in place. they're encouraging those who are unvaccinated to wear a mask when they're inside. of course, it is tough to enforce that if we're being honest. if you've ever been to a music festival. but the context around these mitigation efforts comes within a city here in chicago that has seen covid numbers rise tremendously over the course of the past month. i mean, you look last month, the positivity rate here was 0.4%. now, it is over 3%. again, overall, while that may seem small, it's not the direction people here want...

Recent covid deaths were among the unvaccinated, 97% of new cases among the unvaccinated. but yet there are still politics associated with it from the vaccinations to the masks. nancy pelosi, speaker of the house, talking about reinstating the mask mandate. here's what she had to say. listen. >> if you're asking me, i think that we should mask. but in terms of officially for the house floor, that's up to the capitol physician. griff: really what's got to happen i think, jillian, is politics have got to come out of this. you are seeing more and more republicans, high profile republicans like st...

Your next campaign commercial and chasing clout. >> reporter: right after she left the podium there, you had a county councilman come up and say he opposes this. he says he doesn't believe that the county has the authority to put this mask mandate in place, but i have to note if you listen to the mayor, if you listen to that county councilman, if you even listen to the governor of the state, a republican here, all of them are saying is go and get that vaccine. that's the one way that is guaranteed we get out of this. while they disagree on the mandates and on the different mitigation efforts i...

Ground. i'm glad to hear that we're hearing state leaders and local leaders talking about vaccines but that's only half the battle. what we need is the ability to do mitigation efforts in the local communities and that has to be decisions made and not stopped by the state. for instance, masking guidelines have gone live in palm beach county and we need that ability to do these things on a local level because we have two different ways we need to stop the pandemic now. >> appreciate your time. sorry for what you're going through but thank you very much for speaking out to raise awareness. >> th...