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The same day, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that an infant in the city of Chicago died after testing positive for COVID-19. [72] Infants made up a small fraction of COVID-19 related deaths worldwide, and this was the first death for any infant in the United States who tested positive for COVID-19 .
At the beginning of the pandemic to early June 2020, Democratic-led states had higher case rates than Republican-led states, while in the second half of 2020, Republican-led states saw higher case and death rates than states led by Democrats. As of mid-2021, states with tougher policies generally had fewer COVID cases and deaths {needs update}.
The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. [3]
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The state’s health department reported one COVID-19 death in St. Clair County for the week. As a whole, Illinois’ daily case rate is 37.1 per 100,000 people.
The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history. [43] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [44] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White ...
The Rockford and Freeport areas also are reporting low levels of COVID hospitalizations at 5 new hospitalizations per 100,000 people in both Boone and Winnebago counties and 7.1 new ...
The 35-day shutdown, the longest in US history after surpassing the 21-day shutdown of 1995–1996, [105] led to 380,000 federal workers being furloughed, and an additional 420,000 workers were required to work without any known payment dates, forcing many to find other paid work or protest against the extended period of the deadlock.