The total number of cases in Illinois now stands at 1,144,281, with a total of 19,585 deaths, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the last 24 hours, laboratories reported 90,295 copies for a total of 16,555,035.
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Friday night, there were 2,271 patients in Illinois who were in the hospital with COVID-19. Of these, 485 were patients in the ICU and 246 patients with COVID-19 on ventilator.
The preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity from January 30 – February. 5 is 4.2%.
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A total of 1,635,925 doses of vaccine have been delivered to healthcare providers in Illinois, including Chicago, with an additional 496,100 doses assigned to federal government partners for long-term care facilities, bringing the total number delivered in Illinois to 2,132,025.
IDPH reports that a total of 1,294,498 vaccine doses have been administered, including 188,351 in long-term facilities. The seven-day rolling average of vaccines administered is 49,909.
The IDPH says vaccine distribution numbers are reported in real-time and vaccine delivery lags by as much as 72 hours.
The test locations for the corona virus in Chicago are closed from Friday due to “bad weather”.
City-operated test sites will remain closed Friday through Wednesday, the city reports.
Thursday’s storm will be followed by a deep freeze that will stretch into next week. Temperatures should not exceed single digits, and chills can reach minus 30 degrees in what city officials called a “ polar thrust. ”
Anyone who needs to be tested in the next few days should contact their healthcare provider.
“In all fairness, from a safety perspective, we don’t want the staff and volunteers to be potentially exposed,” says Dr. Allison Arwady, CDPH. And walk-ups are available on the site. We don’t want people to come up. ‘
The frigid conditions also prompted The Loretto Hospital on the West Side to relocate its indoor walking tests.
“We are actually converting our ground floor physiotherapy room, which is quite large and very spacious, into a COVID testing room,” said Afya Khan, infection control physician at Loretto Hospital.
The city’s in-house vaccination sites will remain open, as will the mass vaccination site at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake. Officials there said the need to change staff regularly out of the cold could cause delays.
Professor Hani Mahmassani of Northwestern University, an expert in transportation and logistics, said vaccination clinics are likely to see some no-shows.
“There will be staffing issues,” she explained, “and also no shows in terms of the patients. And in some cases you don’t want patients to come out with this again, especially for some older people. vaccinated. “
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The deaths reported Saturday include:
– Champaign County: 1 1970s woman, 1 1980s woman
– Clay County: 1 woman in her 80’s
– Cook County: 3 men 50s, 1 woman 60, 5 men 60, 2 women 70, 1 man 70, 5 men 80, 2 men 90
– DeKalb County: 1 female 80’s
– DuPage County: 2 women 70’s, 1 man 70, 2 men 80
– Edgar County: 1 man in the 70’s, 1 man in the 90
– Jackson County: 1 man in his 90’s
Jefferson County: 1 man in the 70’s, 1 woman in the 80’s
Johnson County: 1 man in his 80’s
– Kane County: 1 female 70’s, 1 female 80’s, 1 female 90’s
– Lake County: 1 male 70s
– LaSalle County: 1 man in his 40s
Livingston County: 1 man in the 80’s, 1 man in the 90
– Macon County: 1 man in his 70s
– McHenry County: 1 female 70’s
– Montgomery County: 1 man in the 50s, 1 woman in the 80, 1 woman in the 90
– Moultrie County: 1 male 90s
– Peoria County: 1 male 1960s, 2 males 1980s
– St. Clair County: 1 man in the 80’s, 1 man in the 90
– Stephenson County: 1 man out of 80
– Union County: 1 man from the 1970s
– Will County: 1 female 70’s, 1 male 70’s
– Williamson County: 1 male in 60’s, 1 female in 80’s, 1 male in 80’s
– Winnebago County: 1 80’s female
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