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By Dave Dahl
CHICAGO – Gov Pritzker’s daily coronavirus update included more directions for us — and more criticism of the Trump administration.
“When the President wears his red hat in a CDC facility and talks about his own brilliance around being able to do research to determine an answer to this problem, he’s not taking this seriously, and you’ve seen what he tweets about this,” said the governor. “His people in his administration have called this a hoax.”
On the elderly, “We have issued strict guidance around restricting visitors at the veterans’ and assisted living facilities that we control.”
Pritzker said he was in touch with election authorities about moving polling places out of nursing homes for next week’s election. And Pritzker mentioned the cancellation of Chicago’s St Patrick’s Day parades and of the General Assembly’s sessions next week.
As for the numbers, the state Wednesday announced six new cases of coronavirus, including the first in Lake County, which joins northeastern Illinois neighbors in Kane, McHenry, and Cook counties for the total of 25 cases.
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