There were 3,173 COVID-19 patients hospitalized as of midnight Wednesday, with 844 in intensive care unit beds and 508 on ventilators. Those numbers are all as low as they’ve been since the state began reporting the numbers daily on April 12, although the numbers change as more test results arrive and more information is gathered.
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.