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COVID-19: One More Succumbs, Toll Now 19 in Park Forest

by Gary Kopycinski on June 20, 2020

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Tracy Mick, RN, ready to work with highly infectious COVID-19 patients. (PHOTO SUPPLIED)

Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- We have not done an assessment of the numbers of COVID-19 cases in the Park Forest region in a dozen days. At that time, Chicago Heights had just topped 500 cases and the number of deaths by day was tapering in Cook County. Eighteen people from Park Forest had died of COVID-19. The toll is now 19.