FRONT LINES
Community Health at the Forefront of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Front Lines is a project of Esperanza Health Centers documenting our response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Chicago's Southwest side.
On March 8, 2020, Illinois reported its first case of community transmission of COVID-19. Within days, public schools were closed, bars and restaurants shut their doors, and a shelter-in-place order was issued by Governor J.B. Pritzker. Meanwhile, community health centers like Esperanza suddenly found themselves on the front lines of a global pandemic, with few answers and only a handful of tools against a new, deadly, and inscrutable virus.
The narratives below tell the story of what Esperanza witnessed during the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chicago and what we did in response.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|