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1. Illinois won’t hit coronavirus peak until mid-June

Gov. JB Pritzker said the peak for coronavirus infections in Illinois is now forecasted for mid-June, an increase of about a month from the previous projection.

“In many ways, this news is disheartening,” Pritzker said today from a virtual press briefing from his home.

The governor and his staff are working from home after a senior staffer tested positive for COVID-19 last week, the governor’s office announced today. Pritzker and his staff have been tested, and all of the results were negative.

The staff member who tested positive did not show any symptoms and worked closely with Pritzker and other staff members. Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, is also working from home.

Meanwhile, state officials today reported 54 new coronavirus-related deaths, pushing the state’s death toll to 3,459 since the outbreak began. Officials also reported 1,266 new cases, bringing the total to 79,007. Today’s figures come after the state received 12,441 test results. [WBEZ]

Illinois recently received enough supplies of the drug remdesivir to treat about 700 patients, reports WTTW. The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency authorization to remdesivir earlier this month to treat patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

More than 90% of the supplies will go to patients in Cook County. [WTTW]

Here’s a map showing how many cases have been reported throughout Illinois. [WBEZ]

In Chicago, 70 of the first 100 known victims of COVID-19 were black. [ProPublica Illinois]

2. Europe reopens schools, providing lessons for the world

Countries across Europe are reopening schools using a variety of plans, a situation that could offer the rest of the world insights on how to safely welcome back students into classrooms. In a small German town, students use self-administered test kits every couple of days to see if they have been infected.

Reopening schools is a crucial step to reviving economies, but it’s obviously not without risks. One big concern from public health experts is that school children could become “super spreaders.” [New York Times]

Elsewhere in the world, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled his plan to gradually lift restrictions on businesses. [NPR]

In South Korea, health officials reported a spike in cases following an outbreak linked to several nightclubs and bars. [NPR]

And in China, authorities in Wuhan reported at least six new COVID-19 cases, the first to be announced in more than a month. [NPR]

Worldwide, more than 4.1 million cases and more than 284,000 deaths have been reported. [Johns Hopkins]

3. White House predicts jobless rate could reach more than 20%

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the record job losses “are probably going to get worse before they get better.” Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Mnuchin said the current unemployment rate in the U.S. could be closer to 25%.

Last month, the jobless rate jumped to 14.7%, the highest level since the Great Depression. [NPR]

Meanwhile, the White House begins this week with top members of the coronavirus task force in quarantine after being exposed to a person who had the virus. Vice President Mike Pence said he and President Donald Trump would be tested daily after two people at the White House tested positive. [AP]

And Republican lawmakers are divided over how to address states and cities clamoring for federal relief as the COVID-19 pandemic decimates their budgets. [New York Times]

4. Majority of Americans disapprove of protests against stay-at-home orders

That’s according to a new poll from the University of Chicago Divinity School and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll found that 55% disapproved of protests to lift state restrictions, while 31% approve of the demonstrations.

The poll also found that support for stay-at-home orders dipped slightly, from 80% two weeks ago to 71%. [AP]

In Colorado, a restaurant illegally reopened on Sunday with no social-distancing precautions. [Washington Post]

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said nonessential businesses will likely not reopen before June. The mayor also said that 38 children in the city have a mysterious illness that may be linked to an immune response to the coronavirus. That’s more than double the 15 cases reported last week. [New York Times]

Across the U.S., more than 1.3 million cases and more than 79,000 deaths have been reported. [NPR]

5. How 10,000 Orthodox Jewish women are crucial in fight against COVID-19

Researchers and pharmaceutical firms are racing to find blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors as they search for potential treatments.

Dr. Michael Joyner, who heads a Mayo Clinic program, is spearheading a plan that would coordinate the demand for plasma. The plan partly relies on blood plasma of up to 10,000 Hasidic women in New York City, where the Orthodox Jewish community was hit hard by an outbreak. [NPR]

Meanwhile, doctors are still discovering new ways the coronavirus attacks the body, anywhere from the head to the toes. [Washington Post]

Here’s what else is happening

• Georgia’s attorney general asked the Department of Justice to investigate the handling of the Ahmaud Arbery shooting. [NPR]
• A police officer who was stripped of his policing powers is the new president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police. [Chicago Sun-Times]
• Always in threes: RIP Roy of Siegfried and Roy [NPR] / Little Richard [NPR] / and Jerry Stiller. [NPR]
• There’s a trailer out for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone. [A.V. Club]

Oh, and one more thing …

We’ve got … [looks at a calendar and then throws it in the garbage] … a lot of days left in this stay-at-home world. And I know a lot of folks who want to get a dog to help pass the time during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Look, dogs are great, but they’re a lot of work. This guide from NPR helps break down the reality of owning a dog, like how you should set aside $100 a month for dog-related costs. NPR also provides some tips on how to help your dog shift to a post-pandemic life. [NPR]

Tell me something good …

Ugh, I wanna go on vacation, but I obviously will not travel anywhere. So I’d like to know what your favorite vacation spot was before the pandemic.

Me? I went to Palm Springs once for a wedding, and it was amazing. There was a gay bar called Hunters, and I went around telling people I owned the bar and some people actually believed me.

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