Chicago’s top doctor said Tuesday that decreasing COVID-19 metrics mean “very good news” for the city, ahead of possible changes to Chicago’s mask mandate in coming weeks.
The metrics include test positivity, hospital beds occupied by COVID patients, ICU beds occupied by COVID patients and daily COVID cases. The seven-day rolling averages for each category need to be at a"lower transmission" level, which is set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
After those two weeks, if the numbers remain within the “lower transmission” category, then officials would move to remove mitigations that are in place. However, Arwady has said that the full two-week period may not be reached before the lifting begins. Deaths in Chicago are down 51% from last week and the city's positivity rate dropped from 2% to 1.5% of the past week, CDPH date showed.
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