As DuPage, McHenry reach substantial risk level, mask alert called inevitable in suburbs Elgin 12-year-old Geneva Dadabo shows off her I Got Mine sticker, which she placed over her bandage after she got her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin more than two months ago. Rick West | Staff Photographer, May 13
Updated 7/28/2021 7:01 PM
Medical experts say it s only a matter of time before suburban COVID-19 transmission rises to the level at which face coverings are advised in all public indoor locations.
DuPage and McHenry counties joined Will County Wednesday with enough disease spread to trigger the universal indoor mask-wearing advice set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the day before. But it s inevitable that will happen in the rest of the suburbs and Chicago, one doctor says.
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