Chicago and Cook County residents have faced a high risk of COVID-19 for three of the past four weeks, but neither state, county or city officials imposed new restrictions designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Cook County now has 256 confirmed cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents, prompting federal officials to raise the risk level. Last week, there were 193 confirmed cases per 100,000 residents.
The threshold set by federal health officials to warn residents that the risk of contracting COVID-19 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.
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