WGN Investigates: The economic cost of the COVID-19 crisis – WGNTV (Chicago)

Expenditures include more than $11 million to staff the alternate care facility at McCormick Place, where only 38 patients were transferred, and $1.3 million to rent more than 400 rooms at two hotels in Springfield for first responders, healthcare workers and COVID-19 patients who required isolation. But not a single person ever stayed at either property.

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