Chicago sports teams have not received fans at games since they came back to play after the COVID-19 outages last year, and it looks like that shouldn’t change in the foreseeable future.
“We are definitely making good progress here, but we are still not below the 400 case mark and 5 percent positivity [rate] it really marks our danger zone here in Chicago, ”said Dr. Allison Arwady, a commissioner in the Chicago Department of Public Health, on Tuesday.
“Where I think of fans in the stands, this is months away, realistically.
Chicago’s COVID-19 positivity rate stood at 5.6 percent on Tuesday night, according to the city’s COVID panel, up from 6.3 on January 25 and 10.6 percent at 1 of January. The city has an average of 561 new cases per day, down from 672 a week earlier.
The Bulls and Blackhawks have played without fans at the United Center since the beginning of the seasons in December. The regular season schedule is due to end in May.
The Cubs and White Sox played in front of no fans throughout the past season and it is unclear whether any viewers will be present at the start of the 2021 season. at White Sox’s home is on April 8 against the Royals.
Bears did not receive fans in eight games at Soldier Field last fall.
Arwady said he is optimistic that the city will be able to reopen further as it progresses in reducing the coronavirus case count and launching the vaccine, “but we will have to do this in a way that is cautious and I can really “predict in months where we will be. “
Arwady added: “I am feeling optimistic based on the way things are going now, but if I learned [anything] in more than a year doing COVID, it is right to look at the information we have now, make our decisions based on the information we have now and not try to predict many, many months in the future.
“Things are going in the right direction now.”
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