If you are following along, our students have been doing some basic collecting and modeling of Illinois Coronavirus stats. We recently created a petition for shelter-in-place a part of our study of civics, and of course, we claimed “victory” as the shelter-in-place was achieved.

If you read our previous article here with some Coronavirus Math problems, here is a sample current graph. The data was collected from the Illinois Department of Public Health which relies primarily on the Federal Coronavirus Test and has just recently started to report some private test facility data, with a lack of clarity as to the completeness of that integration.

Some possible facts:

We should run out of ICU beds on 3/30 at latest, unless capacity has been expanded in the last week.

We should run out of ventilators on 4/3 at the latest, unless new ones have been purchased by IL hospitals.

Take the shelter in place to heart, people. Even if you don’t get coronavirus with complications or pass it to someone who is vulnerable, if you have some serious injury, there may not be space for you for whatever else that may befall you, like normal flu complications.

As the number of cases increases, the number of available supplies such as ICU beds and ventilators runs out, and then the death toll starts rising more rapidly.