The Pritzker administration has provided little information about the number of COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents statewide. His administration has also declined to identify the nursing homes where those deaths have taken place. The Illinois Department of Public Health, which regulates the facilities, emailed a statement Wednesday that said the state had 296 deaths due to COVID-19 “associated with” nursing homes. That tally, according to the statement, includes both residents and staff members.
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.