Pritzker predicts smaller mid-May COVID-19 peak

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 Pritzker predicts smaller mid-May COVID-19 peak

    JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois 35 min ago

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday the state’s COVID-19 peak could come in mid-May and he is examining the current stay-at-home order for potential changes.

The governor made the comments during a Washington Post Live interview with reporter Robert Costa.

Pritzker said people “have really been abiding by” the state’s second-in-the-nation stay-at-home order, which he said led to fewer deaths and hospitalizations than anticipated at this point.

“And so the result of that has been the pushing out of what had been anticipated to be a peaking in the middle or near the end of April, so it's been pushed out now according to the models to maybe mid-May but at a lower level,” he said.

Pritzker was asked about differences in the Chicagoland area and downstate Illinois when it comes to fighting the virus, and he said there are different infection rates depending on region. That could inform changes to the stay-at-home order, the governor said, although he did not directly respond to a follow-up as to whether some counties might reopen before others.

“And now I think we can make some adjustments based upon hospitalization rates, based upon ICU bed availability, based upon infection rates, as we look to, how can we begin to adjust things and work toward — after the peak — really reopening the economy,” Pritzker said.

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Lightfoot: Stay-at-Home Order Likely to be Extended Deep Into May

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday she expects Gov. J.B. Pritzker to extend the statewide stay-at-home order designed to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus.

April 30 is “no longer a viable date” for that order to be lifted, Lightfoot said.

“I would expect an extension of the stay at home order … through sometime in May,” Lightfoot said.

The order could also be extended into June, Lightfoot said.

“We are not even close to being out of the woods,” Lightfoot said.

City officials Tuesday morning announced the cancelation of the Blues Fest, the House Music Conference and Festival, the Gospel Music Festival and the Memorial Day Parade and Wreath Laying Ceremony. All were scheduled for late May and early June.

As Lightfoot spoke to reporters, the City Council’s Budget Committee weighed a proposal from the mayor’s office to grant Lightfoot emergency spending powers through June 30.

Lightfoot said June 30 is “an outside marker.”

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