Suds up, mask up, and stay put because the next 100 days are projected to be “relative misery” according to local public health officials.
“We are really on the steep part of the curve right now,” said Dr. Patrick Luedtke, the county’s senior public health officer. He projected at the Jan. 21 Springfield City Club meeting that up to 120,000 people in the county will be infected before the numbers begin to drop in April.
