Cook County to increase capacity for indoor dining, outdoor social and spectator events
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Cook County Department of Public Health issued revised COVID-19 Phase 4 reopening guidance that will go into effect on Friday.
The department says it will be easing mitigations in Phase 4 due to 14 days of stable/declining metrics, which includes a decrease in hospitalizations, COVID-19 case rates and positivity rates. We’re able to ease mitigations within Phase 4 for a number of reasons, including a recent decline in cases, hospitalizations and deaths, as well as nearly one-million residents, or more than 50 percent of eligible residents 16 years and older of suburban Cook County who have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, said Dr. Rachel Rubin, Senior Public Health Medical Officer and Co-Lead, Cook County Department of Public Health.