Residents should continue to wear a mask indoors, regardless of whether federal officials peg the COVID-19 risk at medium or high, according to Chicago Department of Health officials.
Although COVID-19 posed a high risk in Chicago and Cook County for three weeks, neither state, county nor city officials imposed new restrictions designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
During the past seven days, new hospitalizations each day in Chicago from COVID-19 dropped by 49%, according to city data. The threshold set by federal health officials to raise the alert level from “medium” to “high” is 10 new COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 residents, if a county has a case rate of more than 200 confirmed cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents.
Cook County’s case rate is approximately 202 confirmed cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents, according to CDC data released Thursday. Last week the case rate was 222, according to CDC data.According to the CDC, 3.5% of staffed hospital beds in Cook County are in use by COVID-19 patients on average during the past seven days.
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