The total number of cases in Illinois is now 1,155,833, with a total of 19,841 deaths since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the last 24 hours, laboratories reported 96,525 samples for a total of 16,918,910.
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As of Wednesday night, 1,954 patients in Illinois were hospitalized with COVID-19. Of these, 448 patients were in the ICU and 227 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The preliminary positivity of the seven-day state test from February 4 to 10 is 3.9%.
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A total of 1,929,850 doses of the vaccine were delivered to providers in Illinois, including Chicago, with an additional 456,100 doses allocated to federal government partners for long-term care facilities, bringing the total number delivered to Illinois to 2,385,950 .
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IDPH says vaccine delivery numbers are reported in real time and vaccine delivery numbers are delayed by up to 72 hours.
IDPH reports that a total of 1,549,108 doses of vaccine have been administered, including 226,974 in long-term care facilities. The seven-day moving average of vaccines administered is 56,094.
Gov. Pritzker visits Elgin vaccine website
Governor JB Pritzker gave an update on vaccination efforts at the Elgin Mental Health Center in Elgin on Thursday morning.
The Human Services Department’s vaccination site in Elgin welcomes many patients and has dozens of staff. Thursday morning, 50 patients and staff members received their second doses of the COVID 19 vaccine.
With the vaccine still scarce, Governor Pritzker says we are still one of the top states when it comes to vaccinations.
“It is because of these direct efforts that Illinois is setting new records for our vaccine launch,” said Pritzker. “In the past week, Illinois was the number one state among the ten most populous states in the country in vaccinations per capita, and although Illinois is the sixth largest state in the country, we now administer the fifth highest number of vaccinations among all states,”
The governor also mentioned an increase in supply coming soon from the federal government, but there is still a massive shortage of vaccine.
On Wednesday, Pritzker announced that Illinois is making plans to expand Phase 1B eligibility on February 25 for people who have underlying comorbidities and conditions, as defined by the CDC. In addition, Illinois will also prioritize people with disabilities.
However, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle said in a statement on Thursday that the city and county would not be expanding eligibility for Phase 1B.
“Doing this in Chicago and Cook County would add well over a million people to 1b, and the result would be that those currently qualified, including the elderly, essential frontline workers and those in our most burdened communities with COVID, would have even difficult to get a vaccine, “said Lightfoot and Preckwinkle in a statemen
The high-risk categories covered in the expansion include:
-Cancer
– Chronic Kidney Disease
-COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
-Diabetes
-Cardiac condition
– Immunocompromised status of a solid organ transplant
-Obesity
-Pregnancy
-Lung disease
-Sickle cell anemia
This expansion could almost double the number of people currently eligible for the vaccine at a time of low supply, but the governor expressed optimism that federal government deliveries will increase significantly in the coming weeks.
“My government will work with all local public health departments to fit these high-risk individuals into their community vaccination plans in the coming weeks,” said Pritzker.
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Deaths reported on Thursday include:
– Clay County: 1 80 year old woman
– Clinton County: 1 woman from the 80s
– Coles County: 1 male, 60 years old
– Cook County: 1 man 30 years, 1 woman 40 years, 1 man 40 years, 1 woman 50 years, 4 men 50 years, 6 women 60 years, 6 men 60 years, 7 women 70 years, 7 men 70 years, 7 women 80 years, 7 men 80 years, 4 women 90 years, 2 men 90
– DeKalb County: 1 woman from the 90s
– DuPage County: 1 woman 40 years old, 3 men 70 years old, 1 woman 80 years old, 1 man 90 years old
– Greene County: 1 woman 50 years old
– Grundy County: 1 male, 60 years old
– Jefferson County: 1 man from the 80s
– Kane County: 1 male 60 years old, 1 male 70 years old, 1 woman 90 years old
– Knox County: 1 woman from the 80s
– Lake County: 1 man 50 years old
– Lawrence County: 1 60 year old man
– Livingston County: 1 man from the 80s
– Logan County: 1 woman from the 90s
– Marion County: 1 70 year old man
– McLean County: 1 male, 60 years old
– Monroe County: 1 man 70 years old, 1 woman 90 years old
– County of Moultrie: 1 man aged 70
– Randolph County: 1 70 year old man
– Sangamon County: 1 woman 70 years old
– St. Clair County: 1 woman 50 years old, 1 woman 90 years old
– Stephenson County: 1 man from the 80s
– Tazewell County: 1 woman 40 years old, 1 woman 50 years old, 1 man 70 years old, 1 woman 90 years old
– Vermilion County: 1 70 year old man
– Washington County: 1 woman from the 90s
– Whiteside County: 1 male 60 years old, 1 male 90 years old
– Will County: 1 man aged 50, 1 man aged 60, 3 men aged 70, 1 woman aged 80, 2 women aged 90
– Winnebago County: 1 woman from the 90s
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