NTHS made COVID testing mandatory for all 4,000 students on its two campuses. But the school chose a lab that had not been certified to run a testing program of its kind, led by a scientist who was not qualified under federal guidelines to run a diagnostic lab, with a test that was neither vetted nor authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. Now IDPH has opened an investigation into the lab.
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.