That moved Pritzker to say he is considering reopening parts of the state to more activity on a “region by region” basis, but the keys to that are determining hospital capacity over an extended area, as well as adequate testing.

He said he is weighing “how best to give people the most freedom while keeping people healthy.” He said he is studying “the ability to do as much as possible without spreading the virus.”

Pritzker said, “We need a lot more testing than we have today,” to reopen the economy with confidence, but “it’s a lot more than just one test for each person. … We need a lot more testing across the country before everybody is going to feel comfortable.”

He added, “None of this is done by whim,” but at the same time he has not yet moved to extend the deadline for the stay-at-home order beyond April 30.

After sitting in on a conference call with Vice President Trump earlier Monday, Pritzker blamed the Trump administration for the continued failure to conduct adequate testing. He said Pence maintained that they were getting testing devices to the states, but he added, “There’s a big difference between testing capacity and getting results.” Results are often slowed, he said, by the lack of necessary raw materials to conduct tests, such as swabs to gather samples and reagents to process them.

“The White House has not delivered what it said it would deliver,” Pritzker said. He charged that the Trump administration was delivering shipments of personal protective equipment and other coronavirus materials not directly to the states, but through “distributors,” who act as middle men. He called them “profit-making private businesses … who are getting the government to deliver to them their goods. … Then they get to decide where those goods go.”

Pritzker added, “What they’re taking credit for at the White House is that the distributors have customers in Illinois that they’re sending goods to, because those customers ordered those items of PPE. So that’s a far cry from delivering to the states so that we can distribute to, for example, a nursing home that has an outbreak. … What they’re doing is delivering to for-profit businesses that are selling for profit to their prior customers who have ordered things from them.”

Pritzker and Ezike said the state was adopting a two-pronged approach to limiting outbreaks in nursing homes and other facilities offering long-term care, with more testing being conducted in sites without a confirmed case, and testing of all staff in residences that have confirmed the coronavirus. Facilities in targeted minority communities are also getting more attention.