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   From: Davecross@kremlin.ru   
      
   Responding to the outsize number of infections and deaths from   
   the new coronavirus in African American communities, Gov. J.B.   
   Pritzker on Friday laid out plans to ramp up testing on   
   Chicago’s South and West sides, in the south suburbs and near   
   St. Louis.   
      
   The announcement came as state officials reported 68 more deaths   
   from COVID-19 and 1,465 additional cases, bringing the death   
   toll to 596 and the number of known cases since the start of the   
   outbreak to 17,887. While African Americans only make up about   
   15% of the state’s population, they account for more than 40% of   
   deaths from the virus in Illinois.   
      
   “The data accumulating over the last few weeks has shined a   
   bright light on what seems like a uniquely American problem,"   
   Pritzker said at his daily news conference. “Many could have   
   told you what it would highlight long before the data drew the   
   picture. Generations of systemic disadvantages in health care   
   delivery and in health care access in communities of color, and   
   in black communities in particular, are now amplified in this   
   crisis.”   
      
   Starting next week, four health centers serving low-income and   
   uninsured people on the South and West sides — Lawndale   
   Christian Health Center, PCC Community Wellness Center, Chicago   
   Family Health Center and Friend Family Health Center — will be   
   collecting an additional 400 swabs daily from potential COVID-19   
   patients.   
      
   The samples will be sent to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s   
   Hospital for testing. Three health centers near St. Louis will   
   do an additional 470 tests per day in partnership with Anderson   
   Hospital in Maryville.   
      
   In addition to the increased testing at health centers, the   
   state early next week will be opening a new drive-up testing   
   facility in the south suburban Markham-Harvey area, which will   
   collect “hundreds of specimens per day,” Pritzker said. The   
   governor’s office said plans are still being finalized, so the   
   exact location has not been announced.   
      
   Get off your ass, Pritzker.  Go test those niggers yourself.   
      
   https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-   
   illinois-20200411-5fsdz64v4vaz5bvfv5wd6fviq4-story.html   
        
      
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