Only 1 state has met the federal government's criteria for reopening Illinois [View all]
Only one state has met all of the criteria contained in guidelines issued by the federal government for safely reopening businesses and easing social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an analysis by ProPublica. Despite the lack of progress by the overwhelming majority of states, Donald Trump is still pushing them to reopen.
ProPublica based its analysis on state-level data, updated daily, for five metrics stemming from the guidelines for reopening issued by the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its metrics are the number of positive tests per 100,000 people; the percentage of tests that are positive; the number of tests per 100,000 per day; the availability of ICU beds; and the number of hospital visits for "flu-like illness."
Thirty states have met only three of the goals or fewer, and three of them Alabama, Alaska, and West Virginia have met only one of the five.
https://americanindependent.com/states-coronavirus-criteria-reopen-donald-trump-illinois-pandemic-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR3T7F5G7OXbjW4BLlcK7F_jJPvrD75wjIsC4HW2msi6DnJmDDtiCYQkbNQ
Link to the ProPublica article:
https://projects.propublica.org/reopening-america/