A new stay-at-home advisory was announced by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Part of the guidelines retract the 6 person or less limit in private residencies, and asks chicagoans to limit in home visits to essential workers.
What We Know:
- The stay-at-home advisory will start on November 16th and end on December 16th if cases are back under control within that time.
- Lightfoot announced the guidelines as the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, warned the possibility of a stay-at-home order for the entire state. During a briefing on the 12th of November he said, “The numbers don’t lie. If things don’t take a turn in the coming days, we will quickly reach the point when some form of a mandatory stay-at-home order is all that will be left.”
- The Chicago advisory was made in response to the increasing positivity rate which is currently hovering around 14 percent. Lightfoot also mentioned the possibility of 1000 chicagoans dying from the virus by the end of the year if the trend continues upward.
- The advisory will run through Thanksgiving, and it is recommended by the mayor that everyone cancels their holiday plans. She said in a statements, “Major portion of that spread is happening in our homes and private venues, with the friends and family, who we love and trust in these spaces people feel safe we/you feel safe, and you let your guard down. And you’re not as diligent.”
- The midwest in particular is struggling with a rise in COVID-19 cases with North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa leading COVID cases over the past week. Overall, America is experiencing a rise with 67,000 people hospitalized due t the virus, which is the most there have been since the beginning of the pandemic.
New stay-at-home advisories are likely to continue to pop up in multiple states as the United States prepare for the second wave of the Coronavirus.
