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riversedge

(69,730 posts)
Fri May 15, 2020, 10:04 AM May 2020

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..........................

Read more: https://nypost.com/2020/05/15/chicagos-cook-county-passes-queens-with-most-covid-19-cases/








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
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Chicago's Cook County passes Queens with most coronavirus cases in US (Original Post) riversedge May 2020 OP
There's a neighborhood in Queens that's been hard hit PJMcK May 2020 #1
It's funny to hear Corona referred to as a "village" greenjar_01 May 2020 #6
thanks for the context for this California person. iluvtennis May 2020 #12
I was there when I was little BumRushDaShow May 2020 #13
Oh, it's Hemp-stead (i.e., a marijuana farm) greenjar_01 May 2020 #15
LOL BumRushDaShow May 2020 #16
Weird. ananda May 2020 #11
Cook County's got more than double Queens' population. n/t Igel May 2020 #2
cases really mean nothing, how many deaths? beachbumbob May 2020 #3
I was just about to post that Sanity Claws May 2020 #4
Right. They are comparing a single burrough with an entire county. What's the point of that? Midnight Writer May 2020 #17
What's the point? moosewhisperer May 2020 #5
I should have looked at your post before I did the math LOL. Scruffy1 May 2020 #7
Scary (since I live in Cook County) but we have been ramping up testing dramatically frazzled May 2020 #8
Maybe rest a tiny bit easier... moosewhisperer May 2020 #9
We also have excellent hospitals frazzled May 2020 #10
Cook County is about 2x the population of Queens. Voltaire2 May 2020 #14
 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
6. It's funny to hear Corona referred to as a "village"
Fri May 15, 2020, 10:27 AM
May 2020

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!!!

BumRushDaShow

(127,328 posts)
13. I was there when I was little
Fri May 15, 2020, 12:17 PM
May 2020

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)
15. Oh, it's Hemp-stead (i.e., a marijuana farm)
Fri May 15, 2020, 12:21 PM
May 2020


As the Hempstead natives ceaselessly reminded us back in the day.

ananda

(28,783 posts)
11. Weird.
Fri May 15, 2020, 12:06 PM
May 2020

Wednesday one of my bridge opponents' username
was Corona.

My partner and I stomped em!

moosewhisperer

(114 posts)
5. What's the point?
Fri May 15, 2020, 10:23 AM
May 2020

What’s 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)
7. I should have looked at your post before I did the math LOL.
Fri May 15, 2020, 10:47 AM
May 2020

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)
8. Scary (since I live in Cook County) but we have been ramping up testing dramatically
Fri May 15, 2020, 11:06 AM
May 2020

Between 10K and 20K tests per day for the past several weeks.

moosewhisperer

(114 posts)
9. Maybe rest a tiny bit easier...
Fri May 15, 2020, 11:12 AM
May 2020

Queens has less than half the population, but nearly twice the deaths as Cook County.

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