On Friday, Illinois stopped providing historical data on COVID-19 in nursing homes. A day later, the full numbers are back. – Chicago Tribune

The switch was at least the second significant change to the way the health department makes COVID-19 data related to long-term care facilities available to the public. On May 15, the department stopped publicly reporting probable cases of COVID-19 tied to the facilities and counted only cases that had been confirmed in labs. The change seen Friday would have made it impossible for the public to know how many people in the facilities have been infected — and have died — over time.