Will and Kankakee County Restrictions

UPDATED: New COVID-19 restrictions to take effect in Will, Kankakee Counties Wednesday

Region 7'sCOVID-19 metrics as viewable at the Illinois Department of Public Health website. (Credit: https://www.dph.illinois.gov/regionmetrics?regionID=7)

Monday, August 24, 2020

The rules do not apply to schools

By REBECCA ANZEL & JERRY NOWICKI
Capitol News Illinois
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SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the state Department of Public Health on Monday announced increased restrictions for residents of Will and Kankakee Counties as the COVID-19 positivity rate there remained at or above 8 percent for three consecutive days.

Bars, restaurants and gatherings in those counties, demarcated as Region 7 in the Restore Illinois Plan, are facing similar rules to those implemented over the past five months by state officials trying to limit the spread of COVID-19.

The new restrictions, which will take effect Wednesday, are stricter than ones being enforced in Region 4, or the Metro East area of Illinois along the Missouri border. They do not apply to schools.

Establishments serving food and alcohol cannot serve customers indoors, and all outdoor consumption must end at 11 p.m. Patrons must be served at tables placed six feet apart, in observation of social distancing guidelines. Reservations will be required.

Employees cannot allow customers to assemble inside or outside while waiting for a table, alcoholic beverages or to leave. Bars must remove stools to discourage patrons from congregating.

Other rules include limiting social events to 25 people, or one quarter of a space’s capacity. Party buses will be banned and casinos and other gaming establishments must close at 11 p.m.

According to a news release, the Department of Public Health “continues to monitor each region in the state for several key indicators to identify early, but significant increases of COVID-19 transmission in Illinois, potentially signifying resurgence.” Those include an increasing COVID-19 case count while hospital capacity concurrently drops.

If, over a two-week period, the virus positivity rate drops to 6.5 percent or below, both regions 4 and 7 can reopen to the degree allowed under the Restore Illinois Plan.

A full list of restrictions and efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus can be found at www.dceocovid19resources.com/restore-illinois.

In Region 4 last week, the governor announced mitigation efforts requiring bars and restaurants to close at 11 p.m. and limiting seating in those establishments to six people per table. Bars are being instructed to seat people only at tables and to remove bar stools to prevent gathering around the bar.

While some of the restrictions were the same in both regions, indoor service for patrons was not yet prohibited under the rules in Region 4.

In a news release, the governor’s office said Region 4 “will have until Sept. 2 at their current mitigation level before the state must move to impose further mitigation in the region.”

As of Aug. 21, the positivity rate in the Metro East remained at 9.4 percent, while Southern Illinois dipped to 6.9 percent. East-central Illinois remained the lowest with a 1.6 percent positivity rate.

The other regions ranged from 4.9 percent in northwest Illinois to 6.7 percent in suburban Cook County. Chicago’s positivity rate was 5.2 percent.

Statewide, the seven-day rolling positivity rate fell to 4.2 percent as of Monday, a decrease of two-tenths of a percentage point since Thursday. From Saturday through Monday, there was an average of 49,090 test results reported per day, yielding 1,953 positive results. The positivity rate for the three-day period was 4 percent and Monday’s positivity rate was 4.5 percent.

There were 31 COVID-19-related deaths over the three-day period, bringing the total casualty count since the pandemic began to 7,888.

At the end of Sunday, there were 1,529 persons hospitalized with COVID-19, including 334 in intensive care beds and 141 on ventilators.

Above is from:  https://www.capitolnewsillinois.com/NEWS/updated-new-covid-19-restrictions-to-take-effect-in-will-kankakee-counties-wednesday

August 25: 1680 New COVID 19 Cases in Illinois

29 additional fatalities in US.  Boone County had 8 additional COVID-19 cases.

August 24: New COVID-19 Cases in Illinois

August 23: 1893 New COVID 19 Cases in Illinois

Coronavirus in Illinois updates: 1,893 new cases, six additional deaths reported Sunday

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Illinois Public Health officials on Sunday reported 1,893 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 and six additional deaths.

That brings the state’s total to 220,178 cases and 7,880 fatalities. There were 54,351 tests reported, a day after the state set another testing record with 56,766 tests.

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If Illinois doesn’t bring its steadily rising coronavirus numbers down quickly, it is among the areas of the country facing a “perfect storm” of risk factors for transmitting the highly contagious disease this fall, according to a Philadelphia medical research center that is tracking COVID-19 in hundreds of counties nationwide.

State health officials on Friday said 20 counties are now considered at a warning level for COVID-19, and that cases of the virus connected to schools are beginning to be reported.

Meanwhile, the Illinois Department of Public Health acknowledged Friday that the agency did not investigate nursing home complaints of neglect and abuse for nearly 3½ months during the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came a month after the the agency fire the state’s top nursing home regulator without explanation and disciplined another.

In NC Trump supports absentee voting.

'Is this a joke?' North Carolina voters are being mailed absentee ballot request forms with Trump's face on them

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Volunteer Dexter Hollier fills out postcards encouraging voters to mail-in ballots during the 2020 elections on August 15, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.

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• Voters in North Carolina sent mail-in ballot request forms that feature President Trump's face on them, with the words "ARE YOU GOING TO LET THE DEMOCRATS SILENCE YOU?"

• The mailout by the North Carolina Republican Party asks for "immediate action" to "ensure your right to securely vote Absentee."

• "The irony is very thick and definitely not lost on me," one voter who received the brochure told CNN.

• Trump has previously also said that using mail-in voting is less secure than absentee voting, even though the two terms refer to the same method of using the mail to deliver ballots.

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Voters in North Carolina are receiving absentee ballot request forms that feature President Trump's face on them even though the president has continuously criticized mail-in voting in the run-up to the November election.

The mailer, which was sent by the North Carolina Republican Party, requests "immediate action" to "ensure your right to securely vote Absentee."

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It features a picture of a smiling Trump, with the words: "ARE YOU GOING TO LET THE DEMOCRATS SILENCE YOU?", followed by "ACT NOW TO STAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP."

Voter Chandler Carranza of Gaston County, who received the mailer earlier this week, told CNN that his wife asked him: "Is this a joke?" when she opened the brochure revealing Trump's face.

"The irony is very thick and definitely not lost on me," Carranza said, according to CNN.

"Trump has been saying mail-in ballots will bring fraud to the election but absentee ballots are legit. Which is it? It can't be both ways. I laughed because if the campaign actually took information from other times they have reached out to me, they'd know I won't vote for Trump despite being a registered Republican," he added.

Carranza is not the only person who received the mail. Other people in the state have taken to social media to report being sent the same brochure.

The president has criticized mail-in voting for months, baselessly asserting that it will lead to voter fraud.

Trump has also said that using mail-in voting is less secure than absentee voting, creating confusion about the difference between the practices.

While every state uses a different term, both mail-in voting and absentee-voting mention the same method of using the mail to deliver ballots to voters, The Washington Post clarified.

Deputy national press secretary for the Trump campaign, Thea McDonald, told CNN that the mailer shows how the campaign "is working to ensure voters in every state know how their state's sorting system works so that every eligible voter can cast their ballot and have their vote counted."

"President Trump has consistently and rightly said that where a voter cannot make it to the polls, they should request an absentee ballot," McDonald said, according to CNN.

"The president has also correctly distinguished between chaos-ridden universal mail-in voting systems, like the one that led to California's train wreck primary, and traditional absentee mail voting systems, like the tried and true system in North Carolina—a distinction Democrats and many in the mainstream media purposely ignore to sow confusion," McDonald added.

This week, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and some GOP Senators publicly broke with Trump by endorsing mail-in voting as a safe and secure method.

"I want to assure this committee that the Postal Service is fully capable and committed to delivering election mail securely and on time," DeJoy said in his opening statement to the US Senate on Friday, according to Business Insider. "That sacred duty is my number one priority between now and Election Day."

Above is from:  https://www.yahoo.com/news/joke-north-carolina-voters-being-112149718.html

August 22: Cases in the U.S.

Cases in the U.S.

Updated August 22, 2020

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TOTAL CASES  5,598,547

46,754 New Cases*

TOTAL DEATHS174,645

1,155 New Deaths*

August 21: State COVID-19 death projections from U of Washington

The projections from August 6 and August 21,are  projects through December 1, 2020.*  The other four projections are through November 1, 2020,  Georgia  has the highest projected death rate 2708 per million.  Projections rose by major proportions for Massachusetts, Arizona, District of Columbia, California, Illinois, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and North Dakota.  Decreases for Missouri, Kansas, Virginia and Wisconsin.

The August 21 projections are available from:  https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america

                         July 7----July 14-----JULY 22------July 30—August 6*—August 21*

United States  208,255,  224,546, 219,864,  230,822,  295,011, NOW 309,918   Population 331.00 million  629.17 per million 678.39 per million, 664.24 per million, 697.35 per million, 891.17 per million, NOW 936.3 per million

Georgia  3,857  deaths; 4736;  7336; 10,278, 11,288, NOW 10.805 Population 3.99 million   966.67 per million ; 1186 .97 per million;1838.60 per million; 2575.94 per million; 2829.07 per million; NOW  2708.02 per million

Massachusetts  12,906 deaths; 10,121 deaths ; 9970;   9647;  10,314; NOW 12.295   Population 6.7 million  1926.27 per million 1510.60 per million; 1488.06 per million;  1439.85 per million; 1539.40 per million; NOW 1835.07 per million

New York  32,221 deaths; 35,379; 35,039; 34,423;  33,945; NOW 32,743  Population 18.8 million  1713.88 per million; 1881.86 per million; 1863.78 per million; 1836.33 per million;  1805.59 per million; NOW 1741.65 per million

Louisiana   4,643 deaths; 5,167; 4955; 6401; 7901; NOW 7840  Population 4.6 million  1009.35  per million; 1123.26 per million; 1077.17 per million; 1391.52 per million;1717.61 per million; NOW 1704.35 per million

Arizona  5,553 deaths; 5,177;  5664;7946;  6840; NOW 9562   Population 7.29 million  761.73 per million ;710.15 per million;  776.95 per million: 1089.97 per million; 938.27 per million.; NOW 1311.66 per million

Connecticut  4,692  deaths; 4,456;  4750;  4844;  5179; NOW 4675 deaths  Population  3.7 million   1268.11 per million; 1204.32 per million;1283.78 per million;  1309.19 per million; 1399.73 per million; NOW 1263.52 per million

District of Columbia  666 deaths; 681 ; 694 ;  646; 605; NOW 837 Population  .706 million  943.34 per million; 964.59 per million; 983.00 per million; 915.01 per million;  856.94 per million; NOW 1185.55 per million

Pennsylvania  9,999 deaths; 8,431; 8028;  8350; 8859; NOW 14,998   Population 12.7 million  787.32 per million; 663.86 per million; 632.13 per million;657.48 per million;  697.56 per million; NOW 1180.94 per million

California 16,827 deaths;  21,264; 19,572;  16,515;  32,692; NOW 41,110   Population 39.78 million  423.00 per million;  534.54 per million;492.01 per million;  415.16 per million; 821.82 per million; NOW 1033.43 per million

Florida   17,477 deaths;19,285; 18,154,  16,318; 19,358; NOW 21,174   Population 21.47 million  814.01 per million; 893.23 per million; 845.55 per million; 760.04 per million; 901.63 per million;  NOW 986.21 per million

South Carolina 242 deaths; 4,556; 3186;  3232; 3672; NOW 4724   Population 5.0 million  48.4 per million; 911.20 per million;  637.2 per million;646.4 per million; 734.40 per million; NOW 944.8 per million

Iowa  841 deaths;  1,225; 1813,1700; 2163 NOW 2856  Population 3.17 million  265.30 per million; 386.44 per million; 571.93 per million;  536.28 per million;  682.34 per million; NOW 900.95 per million

Maryland  3,880 deaths ; 4,278;  4194;  4026; 5174; NOW  5301 Population 6.0 million  646.67  per million; 713.00 per million; 699.0 per million;  671.0 per million;  862.34 per million; NOW 883.5 per million

Illinois  8,907 deaths; 8,351;  8472 ;  8280;  9995; NOW 11,071 Population 12.63 million  705.23 per million; 657.56 per million; 772.43 per million;  655.58 per million;  791.37 per million; NOW 876.56 per million

Texas    13,450 deaths;18,675;  18,812; 24,557; 27,435; NOW 25.532    Population 29.90 million  449.83 per million; 624.58 per million; 629.16 per million; 921.30 per million; 917.56 per million; NOW 853.91 per million

Arkansas 724 deaths;  617, 895; 833; 2234; NOW 2364    Population 3.018 million  239.89 per million 204.44 per million; 293.55 per million;   276.01 per million ; 740.23 per million; NOW 783.30 per million

Washington  2,510 deaths; 3,170; 3303; 2178; 5078; NOW 5040  Population 7.17 million  325.98 per million ;442.112 per million; 450.67 per million;  303.77 per million; 708.23 per million; NOW 702.93 per million

Oregon  471 deaths; 605;  683;  634; 2967; NOW 2408    Population 4.3 million  109.53 per million 140.70 per million;  158.84 per million; 147.44 per million; 690.0 per million; NOW 560.0 per million

Ohio  5,712  deaths;4,545;  3900;  5694; 9041; NOW 6046  Population 11.73 million  486.96 per million; 387.47 per million; 332.48 per million; 485.42 per million; 770.76 per million; NOW 515.43 per million

Oklahoma  587  deaths;1,029 ; 1533; 1484;   2967, NOW 2058 Population 4.0 million  146.75 per million 257.23 per million; 383.25 per million; 371.24 per million; 741.75 per million; NOW 514.5 per million

Colorado  1937 deaths;  2,032; 2774:  2665; 5179; NOW 2967  Population 5.8 million  333.97 per million; 478.28 per million; NOW 459.48 per million; 892.93 per million’ NOW 511.55 per million

Missouri  5436 deaths; NOW 3068 Population 6.137 million; 885.77 per million; NOW 499.92 per million

North Dakota 215 deaths; NOW 371  Population .762 million 282.15 per million; NOW 486.88 per million

Kansas 632 deaths ; 410;  412; 588; 2245; NOW 1277  Population  2.77 million  228.16 per million 148.01 per million; 148.74 per million;  212.27 per million;  810.47 per million; NOW 461.01 per million

Virginia 5,190 deaths ;  4,881;  2643; 2289;  5842; NOW 2828   Population 8.63 million  601.39  per million ;565.59 per million; 306.26 per million:  265.24 per million; 676.94 per million; NOW 327.69 per million

Wisconsin  1,410 deaths;  992; 1041; 2030; 3708 ; NOW 1775 Population 5.82 million  242,27 per million 170.45 per million; 178.87 per million; 348.80 per million;  637.11 per million ; NOW 304.98 per million

South Dakota 254 deaths; NOW 281  Population .885 million 287.01 per million; NOW 317.51 per million

Idaho  120 deaths; 559; 513; 365;  916, NOW 983 Population 4.3 million  109.53 per million 140.70 per million;  158.84 per million;147.44 per million;  213.02 per million; NOW 228.60 per million