The 21st Show

Reporter Roundtable: Illinois Colleges and COVID

Produced by Brian Mackey and Anna Casey
 

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As of Aug. 31, the Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed more than 233-thousand cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including at least 8,019 people who’ve died from the disease.And things are not moving in the right direction. As of Aug. 28, 30 Illinois counties are at warning level, which means at least two of the stats monitored by the state are moving in the wrong direction. That’s one-third of the counties in the state.

We survey the landscape with reporters from three college towns across Illinois.

Guests:

Kallie Cox, Editor-In-Chief of the Daily Egyptian 

Dana Vollmer, Reporter for WGLT 

Corryn Brock, News Editor for the The Daily Eastern News and Beta Pi Chapter of ​President Alpha Sigma Tau 

 

Prepared for web by Zainab Qureshi

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