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ProfessorGAC

(65,028 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 01:46 PM Apr 2020

My County Is #2 In IL For CV19 Deaths

Only Cook County is higher, & they have 4-5 times the people.
Admittedly, 25 dead from one nursing home skews the numbers. 25 out of 102 is a pretty huge fraction.
But, even without that, we'd be 3rd, even though we're the 4th biggest county.
Fortunately, the home my BiL is in now (smaller place) is still at zero cases. They went to "no visitors, no leaving the premises" policy a week before IL went into sheltering.
Hopefully their diligence continues to pay dividends.

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My County Is #2 In IL For CV19 Deaths (Original Post) ProfessorGAC Apr 2020 OP
You must live in Dupage? Beakybird Apr 2020 #1
Nope ProfessorGAC Apr 2020 #2

ProfessorGAC

(65,028 posts)
2. Nope
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 02:34 PM
Apr 2020

Will
DuPage, as of this morning had 90 deaths. They're third on the list. Pretty sure Lake was 4th.
They're fairly consistent with population.
I was wrong in my first post. Cook is about 7.7 times larger.
DuPage has about 225k more people and Lake about 25k. Will is around 680,000.
Cook has nearly 3x those 3 counties combined. Even bigger than I thought.

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