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Like Kramer, people who feel ill and get a negative result on an at-home test should take the tests repeatedly, as often as daily, depending on the specific test’s instructions and if they have enough tests on-hand, Landon said. If there is only one at-home test available, wait until the second or third day of symptoms to test, and if the test is negative, get a PCR test, she said.

“That was a very difficult and fraught time in our city and I think that many people carry the trauma of that moment and others like it with them to this very day,” Lightfoot said. “What I will also say is, looking back on that time right before Thanksgiving of 2015 when the video was first released, there were some things that I think helped our city move forward that came out … not the least of which I think is the level of activism across our city, many young people, many people of different generations, let their voices be heard and demanded change and there has been some change. Not enough. Not enough by any stretch of the imagination but I think some significant things have happened and continue to happen that we need to take stock of in light of this moment.”

“It just kept growing and growing and growing, and that mentality, as much as we struggled as a team, I called Scott and was really emotional because that foundation was huge to getting me here today,” Poles said. “That mental toughness, doing things the right way with discipline, if I didn’t have that, I definitely wouldn’t be here.”

The union, whose previous contract expired in June, said it plans to file an intent-to-strike notice with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board on Tuesday, which would allow the district’s teachers, librarians, social workers and school counselors to strike as soon as Feb. 18.