Corona Viruses Cases in Illinois
COVID-19 Cases in Illinois Broken Down by Race from March to June.
The Corona Virus Pandemic has been the talk of the town for longer than we would’ve wanted it to be. This is especially true for the United States. With 6,894,586 current confirmed cases, the United States is the country with the most confirmed corona virus cases in the world. We take a deeper look into COVID-19 impact in one of United States states highly populated states, Illinois.
The first COVID-19 case confirmed in Illinois was on January 21, 2020. That day marked the beginning of a still ongoing struggle for every race in Illinois. Both a health struggle and economical one. As COVID-19 is considered to be a deadly disease with no cure, but due to safety precautions Illinois would be closing down to reduce the spread of COVID-19. This struggle would have some families choose between staying safe at home or going out to work in order to continue to have some sort of income. Many other families didn’t have the ability to make a choice, however. As many families live on a fixed income and rely on that weekly income, they could not choose to stay safe at home and had to continue working one way or another. They had to go out and continue making contact with others in order to have money to bring food home. This meant they were more likely to contact COVID-19 as Illinois Department of Public Health states, “Person-to-person spread of COVID-19 appears to be mainly between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet) through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.” For that reason, we looked into COVID-19 cases in Illinoi by race. In an attempt to find out what race was impacted the most and had to continue working during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The chart shows the Latinx community being the one impacted by COVID-19 the most in comparison to every other race in Illinois. This is likely to the lake of resource and opportunities the Latinx community is able to obtain. Due to the large lack of resources, most Latinx live paycheck by paycheck and could not stop working during the pandemic. Likely leading to their high numbers of COVID-19 cases in Illinois.