The total number of cases in Illinois now stands at 1,144,281, with a total of 19,585 deaths since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the past 24 hours, laboratories reported 90,295 samples for a total of 16,555,035.
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As of Friday night, it was reported that 2,271 patients in Illinois were in the hospital with COVID-19. Of these, 485 patients were in the ICU and 246 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The preliminary seven-day state test positivity from January 30-Feb. 5 is 4.2%.
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A total of 1,635,925 doses of vaccine were delivered to suppliers in Illinois, including Chicago, with an additional 496,100 doses allocated to federal government partners for long-term care facilities, bringing the total number delivered in Illinois to 2132,025.
IDPH reports that a total of 1,294,498 vaccine doses were administered, including 188,351 at long-term facilities. The running average of vaccines administered over seven days is 49,909.
The IDPH says that the distribution numbers of vaccines are reported in real time and that the number of vaccines is as much as 72 hours behind.
Coronavirus test sites in Chicago will be closed for “bad weather” from Friday.
According to a notice from the city, test sites from the city will remain closed from Friday to Wednesday.
Thursday’s storm will be followed by a deep freezing point that will stretch next week. Temperatures may not rise above the single digits, and wind chills can reach minus 30 degrees in what city officials call an ‘arctic explosion’.
Everyone who needs to be tested over the next few days should contact their healthcare provider.
“Honestly, from a safety perspective, we do not want the staff and volunteers to be exposed,” said Dr. Allison Arwady, CDPH, said. ‘And there is access to the site. We do not want people to walk. ‘
The icy conditions also forced Loretto Hospital on the West Side to move its run-in tests inside.
“We are actually transforming our ground floor physiotherapy room, which is quite large and very spacious, into a COVID test area,” said Afya Khan, an infection control officer at Loretto Hospital.
The city’s indoor vaccination sites will remain open, as will the mass vaccination center at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake. Officials there said the need to turn staff out of the cold regularly could cause delays.
Northwestern University professor Hani Mahmassani, an expert in transportation and logistics, said vaccination clinics are unlikely to show up.
“There will be problems in the staff,” she explained, “and also non-actions towards the patients. And in some cases you do not want patients to come out in this weather, especially for some older people group be vaccinated. “
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The deaths reported on Saturday include:
– Champaign County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s
– Clay County: 1 female 80s
– Cook County: 3 men 50s, 1 60s women, 5 men 60s, 2 women 70s, 1 70s men, 5 men 80s, 2 men 90s
– DeKalb County: 1 female 80s
– DuPage County: 2 women 70s, 1 70s men, 2 men 80s
– Edgar County: 1 70-year-old man, 1 90-year-old man
– Jackson County: 1 male 90s
– Jefferson County: 1 70-year-old man, 1 80-year-old woman
– Johnson County: 1 man 80’s
– Kane County: 1 70-year-old woman, 1 80-year-old woman, 1 90-year-old woman
– Lake County: 1 man 70’s
– LaSalle County: 1 40-year-old man
– Livingston County: 1 men 80s, 1 90s men
– Macon County: 1 70-year-old man
– McHenry County: 1 70-year-old woman
– Montgomery County: 1 50-year-old man, 1 80-year-old woman, 1 90-year-old woman
– Moultrie County: 1 male 90s
– Peoria County: 1 60s-man, 2 men 80s
– St. Clair County: 1 80-year-old man, 1 90-year-old man
– Stephenson County: 1 80-year-old man
– Union County: 1 man 70’s
– Will County: 1 70-year-old woman, 1 70-year-old woman
– Williamson County: 1 man 60s, 1 80s woman, 1 80s man
– Winnebago County: 1 female 80s
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