Illinois State Senate District 58 issued the following announcement on Oct. 26.
The following statement can be attributed to State Senator Paul Schimpf (R-Waterloo) regarding the Governor’s announcement of restrictions returning for IDPH Region 4:
“Although Region 4 hospitalization rates have steadily remained low for the past four months, today Governor Pritzker once again used a flawed positivity metric and an arbitrary 8% threshold to announce the shut-down of businesses and further destruction of livelihoods in the Metro East. The Governor's unwillingness to update his flawed mitigation plan, despite clear evidence that the positivity rate has not been a leading indicator of COVID-19 hospitalizations in our area, shows a frightening indifference to the hardships caused by his decisions. Governor Pritzker should immediately rescind these mitigation sanctions and rethink his COVID-19 strategy.”
Original source can be found here.
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