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September 14: 1373 New COVID 19 Cases in Illinois

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llinois COVID 19: IL reports 1,373 new coronavirus cases, 5 deaths

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Governor JB Pritzker announces financial help for those who have lost their jobs due to COVID-19.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois public health officials announced 1,373 new cases of COVID-19 Monday along with five additional deaths.
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Illinois now stands at 262,744 with 8,314 deaths, the IDPH reported.

The preliminary seven-day positivity rate from September 7 - September 13 is 3.6%.
Within the past 24 hours, the state has processed 35,930 specimens for a total of 4,771,796.
As of Saturday night, 1,431 people are hospitalized with COVID-19, with 335 patients in the ICU and 131 patients on ventilators.
The Illinois Department of Public Health said 30 counties are again at warning level for COVID-19: Bond, Bureau, Cass, Clinton, Coles, Crawford, DeKalb, DuPage, Effingham, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Henderson, Jackson, Jasper, Jersey, Lawrence, Madison, McLean, Monroe, Morgan, Pulaski, Schuyler, Shelby, Stark, St. Clair, Tazewell, Vermilion, Washington and Williamson.
Health officials said that while the counties have reached warning level for various reasons, common factors include college parties, weddings, large gatherings, bars and clubs, long-term care facilities, travel to neighboring states and household spread when members are not isolating at home. Health officials also said cases connected to schools are beginning to be reported, and general community spread of the virus is increasing.
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Two dozen students from Oak Park River Forest High School have tested positive for COVID-19 during the first week of remote learning, according to the school's superintendent.

The 14 additional COVID-19 deaths include:
- Cook County: 1 female 70s
-Madison County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s
- Randolph County: 1 female 80s
- Rock Island County: 1 male 60s

Governor JB Pritzker held a press conference on Friday to discuss $16.6 million in funding to help those who have lost their jobs due to COVID-19.
The money will go toward placing, training and hiring nearly 1,300 residents for a variety of jobs.
"Yesterday, in Rockford, I announced one way in which we're lifting people up all around the state in these difficult times: a new $16.6 million investment to expand job opportunities for Illinoisans who have become unemployed in the COVID-19 pandemic - to place, train and hire nearly 1,300 people for an array of jobs across the state - including approximately 700 right here in Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership's jurisdiction," said Governor JB Pritzker. "This federal funding - made possible by the Department of Labor's Employment Recovery and Disaster Recovery Grant programs - will help us address a goal for reinvigorating our economy that is two-fold - returning more of our residents to the job while simultaneously addressing new economic demands brought on by COVID-19."
At an update on Thursday, Pritzker said while Region 7, comprised of Will and Kankakee counties, is seeing progress, mitigations will remain in effect.
Governor Pritzker said the rolling seven-day positivity rate has fallen to 7.5% in the region, but it needs to fall below 6.5% in order to be restored to Phase 4.

Above is from: https://abc7chicago.com/coronavirus-illinois-covid-19-today-cases-covid-19/6422361/

States most in economic need because of COVID 19

Here are the states struggling the most financially during the pandemic

Stephanie Asymkos

·Reporter

September 14, 2020, 12:36 PM CDT

A person’s financial fortune during the pandemic is tied to which state they call home, according to a new analysis.

Americans’ money distress is disproportionately felt across the 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to a study from WalletHub that compares a location’s average credit score, accounts in distress, bankruptcy filings, online searches for “debt,” and the number of loans needed due to the coronavirus.

Financial difficulties are more pronounced in states like Louisiana, Nevada, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Florida, while those living in Vermont, Montana, Massachusetts, Alaska, and New Hampshire feel less of a financial hit, the data showed.

(Graphic credit: David Foster, Yahoo Finance)

States with more residents in dire financial straits often overlap with those states experiencing high volumes of COVID-19 cases, too, said Jill Gonzalez, a senior analyst at WalletHub, told Yahoo Money.

Among the states with the highest rates of COVID-19 per 1 million residents, five states — Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, Nevada, and Texas — overlap with the states WalletHub identified as those in the greatest financial distress.

The inverse is also true: Vermont, New Hampshire, Oregon, Montana, and Alaska, which were identified as the least financially impacted, are also among the lowest in the country in terms of infection rate.

The pandemic is also striking Americans differently based on income, Gonzalez said, which shows up in geography.

Social-distancing measures didn’t derail industries like media, software, and financial services that are based in the Northeast and West and could seamlessly transition to remote work. But for those living in the South and Midwest — where agriculture, machinery, or service are more prevalent — remote work isn’t an option. That’s hurting lower-earners more, because they make up the bulk of workers in those sectors.

Financial difficulties related to COVID-19 are more pronounced in states like Louisiana, Nevada, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Florida, while those living in Vermont, Montana, Massachusetts, Alaska, and New Hampshire feel less of a financial hit, data from WalletHub indicated. (Photo: Getty)

“It's very obvious that the pandemic is more of a problem for those with lower income than higher income,” Gonzalez said, explaining that the ripples can be felt in health care, employment, and personal finance. “The pandemic is driving a wedge even further between socio-economic classes.”

She noted that lower-income Americans are less likely to be insured so they might avoid getting tested, and typically tend to live in crowded homes and neighborhoods where social distancing is non-existent and could unknowingly spread the virus.

“The effects of this financially —unfortunately, more so for those who have lower income — are going to be felt for years to come,” Gonzalez said, “and entire neighborhoods are really going to be set back from this.”

WalletHub ranked each states’ financial distress for its residents from worst to best. The company used six categories to determine its ranking:

Average credit score
People with accounts in distress
Average number of accounts in distress
Change in number of bankruptcy filings from July vs. January
“Debt” search interest index
WalletHub’s “States Where People Need Loans the Most Due to Coronavirus” score

Louisiana

Nevada

Indiana

Oklahoma

Florida

Texas

South Carolina

Kansas

District of Columbia

New York

Missouri

Utah

Idaho

Kentucky

North Carolina

Delaware

Alabama

Georgia

Tennessee

Wyoming

Arizona

Hawaii

South Dakota

Virginia

Arkansas

Iowa

Mississippi

Illinois

Ohio

Pennsylvania

New Mexico

Wisconsin

West Virginia

Maryland

Michigan

Washington

Colorado

California

Rhode Island

Maine

New Jersey

Nebraska

Connecticut

North Dakota

Minnesota

Oregon

New Hampshire

Alaska

Massachusetts

Montana

Vermont

Stephanie is a reporter for Yahoo Money and Cashay, a new personal finance website. Follow her on Twitter @SJAsymkos.

Above is from: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/here-are-the-states-struggling-the-most-financially-during-the-pandemic-173645584.html?_fsig=D_zkj.NnXcfg.kKFkE9CIw--

Dem leader did not criticize Trump ban on Chinese Travel

FactCheck.org^® A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center

DEBUNKING FALSE STORIES

Video Misconstrues Pelosi Tweet on ‘un-American Travel Ban’

By Saranac Hale Spencer

Posted on April 3, 2020

Quick Take

A viral video makes the bogus claim that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 31 tweet criticized the Trump administration’s restriction on travelers from China to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Her tweet was unrelated to those travel restrictions.

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President Donald Trump instituted travel restrictions on five Muslim majority countries during his first year in office. This year, on Jan. 31, he added more countries to the list.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has opposed that policy from the start, took to Twitter to criticize the expansion, calling it an “un-American travel ban.”

Now, two months later, a video that’s been viewed more than 2 million times on Facebook and YouTube falsely claims that her tweet was about Trump’s decision on the same day to restrict travelers coming from China in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

These are two distinct and unrelated actions that were each taken on Jan. 31. Pelosi’s tweet wasn’t about the restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus.

In the first instance, Trump expanded his controversial ban on certain foreign nationals from mostly predominately Muslim countries. He added six new countries to the existing list of those affected — Burma (Myanmar), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania. Half of them are majority Muslim, according to the Pew Research Center.

Pelosi responded to that expansion in a tweet that said: “The Trump Admin’s expansion of its un-American travel ban is a threat to our security, our values and the rule of law. Barring more than 350 million people from predominantly African countries from traveling to the US, this rule is discrimination disguised as policy.”

The video claims that tweet is evidence that Pelosi had initially characterized Trump’s move to restrict travel from China as “overreacting” to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

It’s not. As we said, her tweet was addressing an unrelated policy that was signed on the same day.

In the second action, which was aimed at addressing the spread of the novel-coronavirus, Trump limited travel for non-U.S. citizens, except for the immediate family of citizens and permanent residents, who were in China within two weeks of coming to the U.S.

Pelosi has not addressed that policy on Twitter, or anywhere else that we could find. We searched the Congressional Record, reviewed her weekly press briefings and other public appearances, and scoured news coverage on LexisNexis. We could find no comment from Pelosi regarding her position on that decision.[closing border to Chinese]

“The Dan Bongino Show,” which posted the video, did not respond to a request for comment.

Editor’s note: FactCheck.org is one of several organizations working with Facebook to debunk misinformation shared on social media. Our previous stories can be found here.

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Gore, D’Angelo and Lori Robertson. “Trump’s ‘Travel Ban’ Doesn’t Affect All Muslims.” FactCheck.org. 28 Jun 2018.

Farley, Robert. “The Facts on Trump’s Travel Restrictions.” FactCheck.org. 6 Mar 2020.

Pelosi, Nancy (@SpeakerPelosi). “The Trump Admin’s expansion of its un-American travel ban is a threat to our security, our values and the rule of law. Barring more than 350 million people from predominantly African countries from traveling to the US, this rule is discrimination disguised as policy.” Twitter. 31 Jan 2020.

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