Though Cook County could move into a level of high COVID-19 transmission by the end of the week, Chicago health officials say a mask mandate would not.
A new subvariant of omicron is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States, according to the latest estimates from the Centers for Disease Control.
As COVID cases continue to climb across much of the U.S. and Illinois, Chicago’s top doctor said the city could reach a “high” alert level by the end of.
Health officials in Illinois say that the state is now averaging more than 6,000 cases of coronavirus per day, with hospitalizations hitting levels not seen in.