Chicago is becoming a coronavirus hot spot in the cook county jail has become a hot spot within the hot spot forty two year old Nicholas Lee died of cardiac arrest after testing positive for covert nineteen he's the third inmate to die at the cook county department of corrections related to the pandemic the latest numbers from the sheriff's department show three hundred and sixty trainees have tested positive twenty are currently being treated at local hospitals two hundred and eighteen sheriff's office staff also tested positive including one hundred and eighty one correctional officers the family of the first inmate to die tied the cobit nineteen is now suing the county Ribeiro ABC news