Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she has 'serious questions' about the national strategic stockpile needed to fight the coronavirus

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• Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot raised questions about the national strategic stockpile of personal protection equipment and ventilators in a Tuesday interview with Insider. 
• "I have serious questions as to whether or not there is a robust stockpile at the federal level," she said, noting that many states' requests of the Trump administration "have not never even come close to being fulfilled."
• The mayor said her administration had prepared for the possibility of a pandemic by participating in a "mock exercise" last August in which city officials made plans to address a fictional virus that originated in China and was set to ravage Chicago. 
• Lightfoot said she's "fearful" Trump's response to the crisis will "come back to haunt us." 
• But the mayor's response to the crisis has also incorporated humor. On Monday, she released a humorous video in which she acts out a series of characters urging Chicagoans to "stay home and save lives."
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot pleaded for stronger presidential leadership amid the coronavirus pandemic in a Tuesday interview with Insider.

She also raised questions about the national stockpile of personal protective equipment and ventilators.

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