By Michael Patrick Leahy
https://www.breitbart.com/author/michael-patrick-leahy/
Residents of nursing homes in Illinois accounted for 59 percent of the COVID-19 deaths in that state over the past three weeks.
On Friday, April 24, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) reported that 625 of the 1,795 COVID-19 deaths in the state reported during the five and a half weeks between the first recorded COVID-19 death on March 17 and April 24, or 35 percent, were nursing home residents.
Three weeks later, on Friday, May 15, the IDPH reported an additional 2,263 COVID-19 deaths in the state during the three week period between April 24 and May 15, 1,350 of whom, or 59.6 percent, were nursing home residents. (Note: The IDPH reports nursing home COVID-19 deaths once a week on Fridays.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/19/59-covid-19-deaths-in-illinois-over-past-3-weeks-nursing-home-residents/