03/31/20: What A Pandemic Dry Run Taught The City

Last year, Chicago hosted an emergency exercise developed by the federal government called Crimson Contagion. Crain's government reporter A.D. Quig explains what the city learned from that imagined global pandemic scenario and how those lessons influenced the local COVID-19 response. Plus: Gov. Pritzker extends the statewide stay-at-home order through April; Ford and GE Healthcare will make 50,000 ventilators in 100 days, while Illinois researchers are building emergency ventilators; Medline resumes ethylene oxide operations with plans to re-sterilize used N95 masks, and retail rent negotiations get messy with $20 billion due. Find #CrainsDailyGist on Twitter and let's continue the conversation.