Hospitals report staff shortages

As the pandemic surges across the state and country, up to a fourth of all Illinois hospitals reported a "critical" staff shortage in daily filings to federal regulators, with a slight improvement this month.

Percentage of Illinois hospitals reporting a "critical" staff shortage

Chart: Chicago Tribune dataviz team Source: Tribune analysis of data collected by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The seven-day rolling average is the average of that day's figure with the figures from the three days before and three days after. Get the data