Government of Illinois. JB Pritzker warned on Thursday that a “mandatory” stay-at-home order was possible if things did not change in the coming days. ”
Speaking for the first time, the state health department issued a new guideline urging residents to stay home and work from home wherever possible, Pritzker said, adding that “we are running out of time, and we are running out of options.”
“Numbers don’t lie,” Pritzker said. “If things don’t change in the coming days, we’ll quickly get to the point where some form of mandatory home investment is left. With every fiber of my existence, I don’t want to go there, but from now on we think that’s where we’re going. ”
He called on state leaders not to apply state guidelines and “anti-masks” who refused to follow the guidelines.
“What will it take to make this real for you?” He asked. “Do we have to reach a positive rate of 0% today as we are seeing in Iowa today? Are you waiting for your health care workers to reach a point where you do not have enough staff in a local hospital to cover? The next shift? Your hospitals are so overcrowded that your illness and death are nowhere to be found? Because I promise you, when you fail to take responsibility in your city and your country, and the day will come – and it will happen to you. Be. ”
Illinois health officials again set a record for the most single-day report of a new case for the third day in a row, with more than 12,000 new confirmed and potential coronavirus cases reported Thursday.
The Illinois Department of Public Health issued a new guideline Wednesday urging residents to stay home and take leave only for “essential activities.”
The pre-Thanksgiving holiday guide recommends that, for the next three weeks, residents “stay at home as much as possible, leaving only for necessary and essential activities, such as work must be done outside the home, COVID-19 testing, visiting the pharmacy and Grocery shopping. “
IDPH Director Dr. Angozi Isaac talks about the latest coronavirus matrix for Illinois.
The guidance also urges employers to have employees work from home as much as possible during that period.
“We ask employers to arrange for this to happen,” the department said. “Our goal is to reduce transmission as we go on holiday so businesses and schools can stay open.”
In addition, health officials suggest limiting travel and gatherings.
“In our current situation, with the increasing incidence of the virus, even participating in small gatherings mixed in homes, or traveling to places that experience high rates of positivity, is not advisable and potentially dangerous,” the publication states. , Travel only if necessary. “
Similarly, Chicago issued a stay-at-home advisory, effective Monday, urging residents to apply the new restrictions on staying home and gathering in the city.
Already, all of Illinois’ healthcare territories were under increasing decline from the state, shutting down indoor dining and bar services and limiting the size of aggregations.
On Wednesday, three of those territories entered Tier 2 of the state’s mitigation plan, limiting the size of the party at the table for outdoor dining and further restricting the size gathered. Only one other sector was already under such restrictions.
Government’s J.B. Pritzker said coronavirus was three times more likely to be hospitalized than the first wave of epidemics in some Illinois regions, and a group of doctors warned that the state could “exceed its ICU bed capacity by Thanksgiving.”
Thursday also saw an increase in the number of hospital admissions in the state, which currently has 5,258 residents in hospitals due to diseases like coronavirus. Of those patients, 956 are currently in intensive care units, and 438 are on ventilators.
The first peak in COVID-19 cases earlier this year was the highest figure met by the state in their respective categories, three figures.
“Our growth in new cases is now exponential,” Pritzker said. “We are seeing current numbers and future predictions worse than what we saw in the spring. Now we are practicing more to respond to this virus, so we have a significant collection of PPE, by our hospitals. There is a planned overflow capability, and we have more tests. But it will not slow down the spread of the virus. ”
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