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Chicago Hospital Executive Bragged About Vaccinating Eric Trump On Day His Hospital Vaccinated Workers At Trump Tower

Ahmed said EricTrump has an “anti-vaccine stance,” but Trump has not publicly shared anti-vaccine stances that Block Club could find. His father, Donald Trump, and his stepmother were vaccinated while at the White House.

Eric Trump may not have understood what vaccines do after his father caught and recovered from the coronavirus -- but he got the vaccine through a personal connection.

A top executive at a Chicago hospital boasted about vaccinating former president Donald Trump's younger son on the same day the facility he oversees inoculated workers at Trump Tower Downtown, where Loretto Hospital chief operating officer Dr. Anosh Ahmed owns a condominium, reported Book Club Chicago.

"Vaccinated Eric Trump," Ahmed wrote in a text message accompanying a photo of himself and the ex-president's son, which the website obtained from a source.

Ahmed shared the photo with acquaintances on March 10, the same day Loretto Hospital held a vaccination event at Trump Tower, and metadata from the photo confirms it was taken that afternoon at or near the residential building.

In addition to owning a unit in Trump Tower, sources said Ahmed has told people he is friends with Trump.

The event was intended for Black and other minority workers at the city's hotels, and hospital officials later said they made a mistake to offer doses meant for West Side residents to hotel employees before they were eligible in the upcoming 1C tier.

Chicago at that point remained in the 1B tier, which expanded eligibility to residents 65 years old and older and dozens of categories of essential frontline workers.

The 37-year-old Trump is not an Illinois resident and does not fit into any of those work categories.

The doctor’s brag comes as the Chicago Department of Public Health is investigating the March 10 vaccination event at Trump Tower.

The vaccination event at the 401 N. Wabash Ave. tower comes as many in Chicago who are eligible to be vaccinated and most at risk from COVID-19 are still struggling to find an appointment to get vaccinated.