Illinois Case Count Surges Past 1M
CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Illinois case count surges past 1M Pritzker laments ‘tragic milestone’ amid MORE COVERAGE pandemic, urges residents to get vaccine A record 3,865 US By Jamie Munks wreak havoc on our nation — with deaths Wednesday the United States setting another The U.S. registered its highest The number of COVID-19 cases record for the most COVID-19 deaths yet on the very day the in Illinois since the pandemic deaths in a day just yesterday — it mob attack on the Capitol began pushed past the 1 million is critical that we take extra laid bare some of the same, mark on Thursday, double the caution today and in the months deep political divisions that case tally of less than two months ahead to reduce the spread, bring have hampered the battle ago. down hospitalization rates, and against the pandemic. The state on Thursday reported save lives,” Pritzker said in a Nation & World, Page 10 8,757 new and probable cases, statement. raising the total to 1,008,045. Illinois endured a strong surge ■ Aldermen will meet, as Gov. J.B. Pritzker called it a of cases when the pandemic some students return to Chi- “tragic milestone,” and encour- initially took hold last spring, but cago public schools, to debate aged Illinois residents to get the that was ultimately dwarfed by an the specifics of Mayor Lori COVID-19 vaccine when it’s avail- aggressive fall and winter resur- JOSE M. OSORIO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Lightfoot’s controversial plan able to them. Nurse clinician Vicki Johnson gives ER nurse Tracy Everett her sec- to start getting kids back into “As this disease continues to Turn to Virus, Page 6 ond COVID-19 vaccine at Stroger Hospital on Thursday.
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