The threat of COVID-19 eased across Chicago and Cook County Thursday, as federal officials lowered the warning level to “medium” after two weeks at “high,” according to CDC data.
The threat of COVID-19 eased across Chicago and Cook County Thursday, as federal officials lowered the warning level to “medium” after two weeks at “high,” according to Centers for Disease Control data.However, Chicago Department of Public Health officials continue to recommend that residents wear masks indoors and on public transportation to reduce their risk of contracting COVID-19 and ensure they are up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines.
Chicagoans should consider the CDC’s medium level of risk warning as “a yellow light of caution,” Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady has said. Cook County now has 193 confirmed cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents, prompting federal officials to lower the risk level even as hospitalizations have risen across the Chicagoland region.
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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