Impressed With Plans Discussed During Town Hall Meeting

Colleges & Universities University of Chicago
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Based on Mayor Lightfoot news conference this morning, everyone has to prepare for the possibility that fall quarter may start as University originally plans for but may abruptly switch to completely online if Mayor Lightfoot decides to go back to Phase 3.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-zip-code-seeing-highest-increase-in-covid-19-cases-in-young-people/2305684/

According to my Excel spreadsheet, Chicago ten day average of new cases has been on the rise since July 1st and it has increase from below 200 in June to 231 today. But the state has been doing more testing. The positivity rate of the state has been hovering between 2.65% to 2.9%. I think Mayor Lightfoot is trying to alert everyone to stay vigilant and not lapse into careless behavior. Still overall the new cases number IMO is not out of control yet.

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^ At least IL hasn’t been added to the List of Shame like MN was:

https://kttc.com/2020/07/14/minnesota-health-officials-question-new-york-quarantine-list/

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Why isn’t Indiana on that list? I think Indiana certainly fares much worse than MN in rate of test positivity and new cases growth. It does worry me that UChicago is only 30 minutes drive from Gary, Indiana. And Lake County Indiana is one of counties in Indiana with the highest rate of infection of COVID-19.

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^ I think they normalize by population size.