As COVID-19 Surges Across Illinois, The Public Is Still In The Dark About Where Cases Start – WBEZ (Chicago)

The Illinois Department of Public Health largely relies on local health departments to do tracing, then report back. Dr. Rachel Rubin, who runs the Cook County Department of Public Health with another physician, didn’t have specific numbers, but she said the county has traced a “fraction” of the just over 75,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the region. Instead, the county focuses on specific areas, like schools and people in their 20s, where cases are rising quickly.
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Sir Tom of Northfield
5 years ago

The only SCIENCE being quoted today is POLITICAL SCIENCE. It is being used by cynical, lying RATS known as DemocRATS! Shame on everyone who goes along with this ridiculous fraud. Have we become a nation of cowardly sheep? Watch some Clint Eastwood movies and see how MEN handle things.

chumpchange
5 years ago

A virus so deadly you need to get tested to see if you have it

Fur
5 years ago
Reply to  chumpchange

Ha!

FedUp
5 years ago

Authorities have had well over 6 months to get a handle on this. Are there not already protocols in place for tracing disease outbreaks? They never seem have an issue tracing salmonella, measles, legionnaires, etc… to specific location or gathering. If this virus was as infectious or deadly as they want us to believe, wouldn’t tracing have been a priority? I saw where they were able to trace 30,000 cases to a Trump rally. Now isn’t that interesting, that authorities have no shortage of resources to trace these particular 30,000 cases – but cannot trace the 2% average daily rise… Read more »

Bob Out of Here
5 years ago

What Jumbo Belly doesn’t understand is most of us don’t have private chefs, unlike him, and most of us depend on going to work to earn a living, rather than waiting on a check drawn on the trust fund.

someone
5 years ago

He straps on the feedbag

Freddy
5 years ago

But JB says its the restaurants (indoor dining) fueling Covid outbreaks. So when you order a turkey club don’t get a side order of Covid get fries or chips instead. Maybe Covid should be taken off the menu to mitigate the virus and restaurants could open again.

rick1099
5 years ago

In Winnebago County a report was just released that shows the 18 “hot spots” for Covid cases. 17 of the “hot spots” were nursing homes, assisted living facilities or re-hab facilities. The 18th hot spot was the Winnebago County jail.

leaving town
5 years ago
Reply to  rick1099

Lost my mom in May.She was in a high end nursing home.This is all about the size of government which is no longer affordable.

Freddy
5 years ago
Reply to  leaving town

Very sorry for your loss. My condolences!

NoHope4Illinois
5 years ago

Wonder how much the Pritzker family has profited from all this?

Fed up neighbor
5 years ago

Immensely just like his growing waste size and lack of breath during his news conferences. Ever take notice he grasp for air

Last edited 5 years ago by Fed up neighbor
someone
5 years ago

They have their hand in the pocket of the tests.

Lana
5 years ago

Don’t worry.. all…Pelosi and Biden said they are going to SMASH the virus.

Lyn P
5 years ago
Reply to  Lana

They will smash the USA. Or easier, turn it over to the Chi-Comms.

Joey Zamboni
5 years ago

*Boy That Cried Wolf* is our true leader…

Poor Taxpayer
5 years ago

This will not end well.
BLM,
white lives Matter?

Lyn P
5 years ago

GIMMEaBREAK. “Cases” start, and in fact, only exist, in a fabricated factory-farm of public swab-pushing that someday will be viewed as the greatest sub-scam of the Co-hoax Greater Scam.

When the public tires of “cases” reporting, they might switch to “infections” because of course semantics is the purveyor of Reality.

Doug Overmyer
5 years ago

In Coles, Douglas, Effingham Counties, not a single case has been reported to start in a restaurant. So why close them, exactly? I mean, besides the fascist desire to control and destroy people’s lives.

Go to the chart in this site, and put in your county, and see where the government has been secretly tracking cases.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-keeps-a-secret-list-of-thousands-of-coronavirus-outbreaks-now-nbc-5-has-it/2361313/#new_tab

Lyn P
5 years ago
Reply to  Doug Overmyer

Only secret when one wasn’t aware this was the pre-ordained plan of the testing…

Tom H
5 years ago
Reply to  Doug Overmyer

It’s unbelievable!!! Every major outbreak is a senior living home!! Where’s is the accountability here? JB, I get it. You have an agenda to make Trump lose, but elderly are the collateral damage. The elderly, overweight and sick are those that need to be quarantined. Not the healthy. Take it from me, as I was back to usual after a week. Lucky for you, your $$$ is in the caymans. What a shame. In order to protect the unions you love, you have to protect the small businesses that have to fund the shenanigans. Best of luck on the national… Read more »

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