JB Pritzker will decide when the Illinois mask mandate ends, but Chicago's restaurant vaccine mandate could end soon if COVID cases continue to fall.
CHICAGO -- The city's vaccine mandate for bar and restaurant patrons could be rescinded"quite soon" if COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations keep falling as drastically as they have over the past two weeks, Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said Tuesday.
The officials offered those nuggets of cautious optimism as the Illinois Department of Public Health reported the state's latest 8,665 positive tests - a number that would've sounded alarm bells in the fall, but that now represents a 66% decline in cases over the past three weeks. The turnaround has been even more pronounced in Chicago over the last week, which has seen daily cases dip by 48%, new hospital admissions by 41% and deaths by 44% - but those metrics still remain at levels comparable to the peaks of previous surges. That's why mitigations remain in place for now, Arwady said.
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