IL Gov Pritzker Expanding COVID-19 Testing to Address 'Huge' Racial Disparity in Cases, Deaths

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Black residents in Illinois are five times more likely to die of COVID-19 than their white counterparts, according to state officials, who continue to see a “huge disparity” in the number of both cases and death related to the new coronavirus based on race.

On Friday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the state will expand testing in communities of color and for people with disabilities while issuing new guidance to address the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Generations of systemic disadvantages in health care delivery and health care access in communities of color, and black communities in particular, are now amplified in this crisis all across the state and across the nation,” he said Friday during his daily press briefing. “We are making sure that our plans reflect equity in access, testing and treatment and we are asking the same of health care providers across the state.”

Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health announced Friday there had been 68 more deaths statewide and 1,465 new cases. That brings the statewide total to 17,887 novel coronavirus cases and 596 deaths across 83 counties.

https://news.wttw.com/2020/04/10/pritzker-expanding-covid-19-testing-address-huge-racial-disparity-cases-deaths

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1. J.B. gets it...one of the best governors in the USA