Artists from across the nation are traveling to Old Town for the iconic art fair this weekend, returning to the city after last summer’s closure due to the.
Chicago is seeing a rolling seven-day average of 135 new COVID cases per day, which is down 44% from last week and under the 200 cases per day metric that the city s health officials have long said would indicate that the pandemic s spread is more under control.
Hospitalizations are down 57% from the prior week as of Thursday and deaths are down to an average of four per day, city data shows. The percent positivity in coronavirus testing was at 2.0% Wednesday - which Lightfoot highlighted as the city s lowest rate since March 2020. We know the vaccine is safe and works, Lightfoot tweeted Wednesday. Getting everyone vaccinated is key to our safe reopening strategy. This is a big deal. Let’s keep the great momentum folks. Get vaxxed.
I believe that we ve talked about - we meaning myself and [Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady] - that we hope to get to fully open by Fourth of July. We will see what happens by June 11, Lightfoot said Wednesday. We re definitely trending in the right direction, but the minute I say that I worry because we ve been here before. But our cases are going down, our percent positivity is going down, hospitalizations, ICU - all the metrics that we follow on a daily basis are all trending in the right direction, but we ve got to keep getting people vaccinated. But my hope is that we re going to keep moving on the trajectory that we re on, and we re going to see more opportunities for opening up.