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His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street.
Our current vaccination levels are not enough to blunt the ferocity of Delta variant hospitalization surges in some regions.


This legislation takes sweeping action:
It achieves three priorities that @LtGovStratton and I outlined:
Long before COVID-19, I set the goal of bringing broadband digital infrastructure to every corner of Illinois by 2024 through Connect Illinois, and I'm happy to report we are well on our way toward our goal of making broadband accessible for every Illinoisan.
I've worked with governors of both parties and spoken countless times with members of Congress to aggressively advocate for federal support to make up for the missing dollars that fund schools, pay caregivers and first responders & deliver essential services to residents in need.
The @US_FDA is reviewing 2 COVID-19 vaccines in December 2020, w/ multiple others in the final stages of evaluation. The @pfizer vaccine recorded a 95% effective rate and is being considered on Dec 10. The @moderna_tx vaccine recorded a 94% rate and is being considered on Dec 17.
We are seeing substantially more confirmed cases right now than we ever saw in the spring. Today, we are at a new high, a seven day average of 5,043 new cases per day – closing in on twice what we saw in May.
Peoria’s Restore Illinois region, Region 2, is currently the best performing of our state’s 11 Restore regions – but a 7.2% positivity average is nothing to write home about, and that’s on top of a slight uptick in hospitalizations this month after leveling off in Aug. and Sept.
While we take action to save lives, we're working to save livelihoods as well. @IllinoisDCEO has distributed $24.6 million to Region 5 businesses and communities, and they'll receive priority consideration in the currently open round of BIG Grants, worth a total of $220 million.
The same obstacle that forces us to join together virtually – COVID-19 – has also underscored how far we have to go in that work, as Latino communities, as well as Black and Indigenous communities, have disproportionately shouldered the economic & health burdens of this pandemic.



Unlike in late February, we now have significantly greater ability to test, trace & limit the spread of #covid19: