In the two days since President Donald Trump made remarks about the possibility that somehow injecting disinfectants into the human body may help fight the novel coronavirus, the Illinois Poison Center has seen an increase in calls about using cleaning agents, the state’s public health director said Saturday.
“Injecting, ingesting, snorting household cleaners is dangerous,” Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said. “It is not advised and can be deadly.”
Ezike also reported Saturday an increase of 2,119 new known COVID-19 cases and 80 additional deaths, bringing the state’s total known cases to 41,777 and the death toll to 1,874 total deaths.
Here’s what’s happening on Saturday with COVID-19 in the Chicago area and Illinois:
7 p.m.: After President Trump makes comments about possibly using disinfectants to fight coronavirus, Illinois Poison Center sees increase in calls, state health official says
In the two days since President Donald Trump made remarks about the possibility that somehow injecting disinfectants into the human body may help fight the novel coronavirus, the Illinois Poison Center has seen an increase in calls about using cleaning agents, the state’s public health director said Saturday.
During her daily news conference with the governor, Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said “there has been a significant increase" in calls related to cleaning products, including one regarding a person who had gargled a combination of bleach and mouthwash in an effort to treat coronavirus and another about using a detergent solution as a sinus rinse. She did not provide a count on the increased number of calls into the state.
“Injecting, ingesting, snorting household cleaners is dangerous,” Ezike said. “It is not advised and can be deadly.”
Without mentioning the president, Ezike said there are many “myths, rumors and general misinformation” circulating about the use of cleaning supplies, and she urged people to listen to scientists and medical professionals regarding safety.
The surge in poison calls compared to a year ago comes on the heels of Trump’s comment that disinfectants perhaps could be injected or ingested to fight COVID-19. His suggestion also prompted the maker of Lysol to warn its product should never be ingested. Read more here. —Patrick M. O’Connell and Joe Mahr
6:40 p.m.: Officials scale back McCormick Place plans by 2,000 beds as coronavirus curve flattens
City and state officials have decided to open 2,000 fewer beds at the McCormick Place medical center, citing the slowing growth of COVID-19 cases in Illinois.
McCormick originally was supposed to have 3,000 beds in case Chicago-area hospitals were hit with more coronavirus patients than they could handle at once. For the time being, however, a planned 1,750-bed hall won’t be opened. And a separate hall for sicker patients has been scaled back by 250 beds. Read more here. —Lisa Schencker
6:37 p.m.: Newly released state figures show jump in COVID-19 deaths at some Illinois long-term care facilities
The state released figures this weekend that showed a dramatic jump in deaths of those linked to long-term care facilities – to 625, more than double reported a week ago.
The latest figures compiled by the state showed that, as of a Friday count, at least 278 facilities had 4,298 cases of residents or workers testing positive. Illinois Department of Public Health figures from the prior week reported 186 facilities, with 286 deaths out of 1,860 cases.
As of now, a third of all Illinois deaths from the virus have been tied to long-term care facilities. Read more here. —Joe Mahr and Patrick M. O’Connell
6:20 p.m.: Potbelly to return $10 million PPP loan, following lead of other restaurant chains and a warning from the feds to public companies
Potbelly Corp. said Saturday it would return the $10 million it received from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, a decision that followed days of backlash for it and other publicly held companies that tapped funds designed to help small businesses weather coronavirus-related shutdowns.
The Chicago-based company’s announcement followed an advisory Thursday from the Small Business Administration that companies that could not prove their eligibility for the funds should give back the money by May 7. Read more here. —Mary Ellen Podmolik
4:22 p.m.: Polish delegation helping with COVID-19 response tour Cook County’s emergency operations center
A delegation of medical professionals from the Polish Ministry of Defense toured the Cook County Emergency Operations Center Saturday morning, officials said.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle greeted the visitors at the Oak Forest facility that serves as command center for the county’s Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Nine members of the Polish military’s Medical Corps are in Chicago to support the state’s response to COVID-19, according to a press release from the state. The delegation arrived on April 23 and are here until May 2.
The medical professionals are in Illinois after treating COVID-19 patients in Poland and Italy as part of a partnership between the Illinois National Guard and the Polish military. —Madeline Buckley
2:48 p.m.: 2,119 new known COVID-19 cases and 80 additional deaths
Illinois had 2,119 new known COVID-19 cases and 80 additional deaths reported Saturday, bringing the state’s total known cases to 41,777 and the death toll to 1,874 total deaths, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, head of the state’s public health department, said.
As of midnight, 4,699 people in Illinois were hospitalized with coronavirus, with 1,244 of those patients in intensive care units. Of those in ICUs, 763 were on ventilators.
Illinois officials also cautioned against ingesting, injecting or snorting disinfectants. —Patrick O’Connell
2:40 p.m.: COVID-19 kills Chicago nurse and her 20-year-old son — as husband barely survives
Josephine Tapiru had been pulling extra shifts, working from 9 a.m. until sometimes 11 p.m., because the North Side nursing home was getting more and more short-staffed as co-workers fell ill.
After clocking out on April 3 from Park View Rehab, Tapiru told a friend her throat was getting sore and she was coughing. She stopped at a drug store, picked up a bottle of NyQuil and went to bed as soon as she got home.
Sometime that night, she slipped into a coma. The world’s novel coronavirus was beginning to take its terrible toll on her family.
Josephine was taken to the intensive care unit at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston. Her husband would be admitted there within a week. Four days later, their 20-year-old son Luis Jr. was found dead on the couch of their home. Four more days passed and Josephine died too, without coming out of her coma.
Friends and family waited nearly a week, when Luis Sr. was finally removed from a ventilator, to tell him about the deaths of his wife and son. Read more here. —Rosemary Sobol
1:22 p.m.: Kane County Health Department orders closure of St. Charles meat processing plant
The Kane County Health Department on Friday ordered a Smithfield meat processing plant in St. Charles to close due to “concerns about COVID-19.”
The order temporarily closes the facility to allow the health department to work with the company on “mitigation efforts” and “providing education relative to social distancing and employee safety relative to personal protective equipment,” according to a statement from the health department.
The health department on Saturday declined to say whether any workers there were diagnosed with COVID-19 or provide more information about the order.
Smithfield declined to say whether COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in the facility, but said the company is cooperating with the health department. The order comes on the heels of a federal lawsuit filed Thursday by an anonymous worker and an advocacy group alleging unsafe working conditions in a Smithfield plant in Missouri.
The St. Charles plant is the latest closure for the Virginia-based company, which has halted work at facilities across the country where workers have become sick, including at another Illinois facility in downstate Monmouth. Read more here. —Madeline Buckley
1:14 p.m.: Public health commissioner says Chicago’s COVID-19 curve is flattening but is ‘not on the way back down yet’
Chicago continues to flatten its coronavirus curve but is “not on the way back down yet” in terms of new COVID-19 cases among city residents, public health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said.
As of Saturday, the city had 16,200 lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases, along with 697 deaths, Arwady said during her daily question-and-answer session on social media. That marks an increase in Chicago of 801 cases and 36 deaths since Friday.
The city averaged about 2,100 tests per day over the past seven days, Arwady said.
"That's working its way up," she said. "We want to see more than that, and we will see more than that, but we are making progress."
Of those tested, about 30% are coming back with a positive result, Arwady said. Read more here. —Madeline Buckley
12:10 p.m.: Alderman wants to buy protective masks directly from Willie Wilson
An aldermen wants to buy protective masks directly from businessman and former mayoral candidate Willie Wilson to distribute to Chicago residents, days after Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she refused to purchase masks from Wilson because he wanted an upfront cash payment.
Far South Side Ald. Anthony Beale, 9th, a Lightfoot critic, said he and four other aldermen want to use money from their local ward funds to buy masks from Wilson. The Lightfoot administration would need to approve taking the money out of those accounts for the purchase, since the funds are usually used for local infrastructure projects such as street repaving, Beale said.
Aldermen all over the city could do the same thing, Beale said. He wants to pay $60,000 from his menu account to buy 100,000 masks from Wilson for residents in his ward. Other aldermen could buy as many as they wanted, he said.
It’s unclear whether the plan will work.
The Lightfoot administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the idea. Read more here. —John Byrne
11:29 a.m.: Illinois Supreme Court to hear arguments via video
The Illinois Supreme Court will for the first time in its history hear oral arguments through videoconference because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The unusual procedure during May will allow the court's seven justices to observe social distancing, a practice which experts believe significantly limits transmission of the potentially deadly virus.
"These are extraordinary times, but what we have found is that we can keep our traditions the same," Chief Justice Ann Burke said in a statement. "The Court has found that a lot of our regular work – including oral arguments – can be done remotely while still keeping people safe from COVID-19."
The court is scheduled to hear 11 cases on May 12-14. Arguments begin at 9 a.m. each day.
Court personnel will have training sessions with lawyers involved in the cases so that they know what to expect from the virtual sessions. —Associated Press
11:25 a.m.: Aurora’s ‘Cross Man’ is dying of cancer. A drive-by salute is being planned.
Now on hospice care, his voice sounding weaker each time I talk to him, Greg Zanis admitted on Friday afternoon he’s “doing terrible” in his struggle against the terminal bladder cancer he was diagnosed with in March.
For the man who has traveled over 800,000 miles setting up heavy handmade crosses for those who died violently, just getting out of bed these days is a “real struggle,” he says.
The cancer has spread quickly – to his liver, his lymph nodes, his muscles and likely beyond, notes wife Sue.
And because the family knows time is running short, they are asking for a favor from this community which has been the recipient of these white wooden memorials for nearly a quarter of a century.
If you appreciate what the ‘Cross Man’ has done since 1996 when he began sprinkling his handiwork over the Fox Valley landscape – not to mention from coast to coast as mass shootings ravaged our country – there’s now a chance to show him that gratitude in a drive-by “visitation” from 2 to 4 p.m. May 1 at his Aurora home at the corner of Indian Trail and Church roads. Read more here. —Denise Crosby
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