In determining Illinois performance in handling Covid, my sister has relied on the positivity rate, which has remained less than 2%, and declining, over the past week. I look at the average daily death count and that still remains higher than it was two months ago. Until the average drops into the single digits, I will remain skeptical about how well we are actually doing and troubled by the fact that we don’t appear to be doing better than Texas or Florida; indeed Texas seems to be managing far better than we are doing when it comes to the mortality metric.