By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker is pleased with the progress Illinoisans are making to defeat coronavirus — so far! History may repeat itself.
“Will there be another spike?” Pritzker asks. “If everybody follows the rules, based upon what I’ve read, we shouldn’t have another spike — except for this: the ‘Spanish flu’ from 100 years ago, the last great pandemic, when they got to the fall, it spiked even higher than it was in the spring. So a lot of people, including doctors, are worried about that possibly happening” with coronavirus.
I want to thank Gen. Neely and the hardworking members of @IL_Natl_Guard for standing up our 11 community based testing sites, including this one here in Chatham. Collectively, our state drive-thrus can take more than 6,000 specimens daily, and tests are completely free. pic.twitter.com/yBr9dgq4L4
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) June 3, 2020
He added Illinois is much better prepared now than three months ago. At an unrelated event in Moline, Pritzker praised everybody for wearing masks.
Dave Dahl can be reached at News@WJBC.com.
