Chicago may have a "confidential" plan, but the State of Illinois has a public plan [1] which they finished updating March 2 after participating in the "Crimson

Chicago may have a "confidential" plan, but the State of Illinois has a public plan [1] which they finished updating March 2 after participating in the "Crimson Contagion" exercise last year. I personally think that the state and Chicago are handling things pretty well, relatively speaking [2]. > It’s not the only one being used. Local governments have their own playbooks, including Chicago, which honed its plan as part of a federal drill last year called Crimson Contagion that imagined a viral pandemic jumping from China to Chicago, then sweeping America. > Chicago’s health commissioner, Dr. Allison Arwady, said the city made 2019 “the year for pandemic planning,” modeling various scenarios to see how the city and its hospitals could manage. [1] http://www.dph.illinois.gov/sites/default/files/publications/illinois-pandemic-influenza-plan-version-51march-2020.pdf http://www.dph.illinois.gov/sites/default/files/publications... [2] https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-illinois-pandemic-plan-coronavirus-20200327-367axxfjjjfb3jgtkfdpoauj4m-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-illinois-pande...