Illinois State Senate District 58 issued the following announcement on Sept. 3.
The following statement can be attributed to State Senator Paul Schimpf (R-Waterloo) regarding Governor Pritzker’s new restrictions on the Region 4 (Metro East) area:
“This morning I asked Governor Pritzker to significantly revise and update his COVID-19 mitigation plan. From the very beginning, he made it clear that the goal was to flatten the curve so that our hospitals aren’t overwhelmed. Yet his plan relies on the positivity rate as a trigger for actions, even though we’ve clearly seen that in Region 4, the positivity rate does not contain sufficient accuracy or insight to meaningfully assess the spread of COVID-19. He should switch to the hospitalization rate, a far more accurate metric for where we are, before he asks our businesses and their employees to take another significant hit that they can’t afford.”
Original source can be found here.
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