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Patients started arriving Tuesday afternoon, and five were there Friday, officials said. “They are all people who have low-acuity COVID-19,” said Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who noted that the pop-up hospital was not designed to treat the sickest patients.
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Five patients!?!? Five!?
I still don’t why they didn’t use university dorms for this instead of wasting money on putting together this facility in McCormick place. What a clown show. I bet they will now put homeless there to show it being used. https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14735
The mcpier guys are already filing labor greaves. Teamsters Local 727 Contacts Mayor’s Office About Labor Violations At McCormick Place Field Hospital.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/teamsters-local-727-contacts-mayors-office-about-labor-violations-at-mccormick-place-field-hospital-301042310.html