Illinois enters 2022 with record-high COVID cases, full hospitals, evolving risks and some hope – Chicago Tribune*

A grassroots group of health care workers, the Illinois Medical Professionals Action Collaborative Team, called on the governor Thursday to take a host of steps, including reinstituting indoor capacity limits and deploying more National Guard troops to shore up depleted health care staffing: “Simply put, we can’t keep up. We are drowning and need help immediately.”