The state of Illinois has been working to acquire more ventilators to have on hand to help support critically ill COVID-19 patients. Governor JB Pritzker says the state has ordered 3,620 ventilators, obtained 600 from the federal government and received 100 ventilators yesterday on loan from the state of California.

Pritzker says recent state data reports that 27 percent of all ventilators in the state were being used by COVID-19 patients.