Chicago's Cook County passes Queens with most coronavirus cases in US
Source: nypost
May 15, 2020 | 1:21am | Updated
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Cook County, Illinois, on Thursday reached 58,457 reported COVID-19 cases, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Queens tally, meanwhile, reached 58,084 cases, according to the state Health Department.
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Statewide, though, New York still far exceeds Illinois in cases.
As of Thursday, New York had recorded 343,051 cases compared to Illinois, where there were 87,937..........................
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Cook County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Ponni Arunkumar puts on personal protective equipment as she prepares to perform four autopsies in as many hours at the county morgue in Chicago. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast
PJMcK
(21,922 posts)I kid you not, the village is called Corona!
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Sorry, native Queens kid here.
By the way, peeople not from Queens might know the "village" of Corona from such sites as (now destroyed) Shea Stadium, Citifield, Arthur Ashe Stadium (where they play the US Open tennis tournament) and Flushing Meadows Corona Park, which holds perhaps Queens most famous landmark apart from Archie Bunker's house, the globe from the 1964 World's Fair (officially, the Unisphere).
Corona is also, of course, famous from Paul Simon's great "me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard": Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona...". And please, nobody forget the real reason Queens folks go to Corona: ITALIAN ICES!!!
iluvtennis
(19,758 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,328 posts)near the end of the World's Fair's exhibit period in spring of 1965. As a wee one, I remember walking in that little park with my parents (one of my sisters was in a stroller and another wasn't born yet) and seeing what I STILL call today - "that globe thing".
My aunt lived in Hempstead at the time and we went up there to visit (I think it was probably because one of my cousins was about 6 months old then and my mother wanted to visit her sister).
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)As the Hempstead natives ceaselessly reminded us back in the day.
BumRushDaShow
(127,328 posts)(fixed it )
Wednesday one of my bridge opponents' username
was Corona.
My partner and I stomped em!
Igel
(35,197 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)That is very significant if you are comparing the two counties.
Midnight Writer
(21,548 posts)moosewhisperer
(114 posts)Whats the point of this comparison?
Cook County encompasses all of Chicago and some suburbs. Population is 5.15 million. 2,589 have died from COVID-19.
Queens has a population of 2.273 million and has had 4,529 deaths from COVID-19.
So, Cook County has more than twice the population and nearly half the deaths.
Scruffy1
(3,239 posts)Worldometer lists all the states in order of the number of total cases. All of these numbers are very approximate due to a systemic failure of our health care system. The best number is probably deaths per million because at least deaths get reported even though the diagnostics are prety bad. It fairly easy to see excess deaths from the records.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Between 10K and 20K tests per day for the past several weeks.
moosewhisperer
(114 posts)Queens has less than half the population, but nearly twice the deaths as Cook County.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)So that's a comfort