Modelers say their work involves multiple guesses, ranging from just how infectious the virus is to how successfully people will keep their distance from one another. COVID-19 projections are also complicated by the lack of large-scale testing, meaning researchers do not know how many people are infected.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.