The total number of cases in Illinois is now 1,144,281, with a total of 19,585 deaths since the beginning 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, 2,271 patients in Illinois were hospitalized with COVID-19. Of these, 485 patients were in the ICU and 246 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The statewide seven-day preliminary positivity test from January 30 to February 30. 5 is 4.2%.
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A total of 1,635,925 doses of the vaccine were delivered to providers 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 to Illinois to 2,132,025 .
IDPH reports that a total of 1,294,498 doses of vaccine have been administered, including 188,351 in long-term facilities. The seven-day moving average of vaccines administered is 49,909.
IDPH says vaccine delivery numbers are reported in real time and vaccine delivery numbers take up to 72 hours.
The Coronavirus test sites in Chicago will be closed due to “bad weather” starting on Friday.
The test sites operated by the city will remain closed from Friday to Wednesday, according to a city notification.
Thursday’s storm will be followed by a deep freeze that will continue until next week. Temperatures may not rise above one digit, and cold winds can reach minus 30 degrees in what city officials call an “arctic explosion”.
Anyone who needs to get tested in the next few days should contact their doctor.
“Honestly, from a security perspective, we don’t want staff and volunteers to be potentially exposed,” said Dr. Allison Arwady, CDPH. “And there are availabilities on site. We don’t want people to go up.”
The icy conditions also prompted the Loretto Hospital on the West Side to move its tests indoors.
“We are actually converting our physiotherapy room on the ground floor, which is very large and spacious, into a COVID testing area,” said Afya Khan, an infection control practitioner at Loretto Hospital.
The city’s indoor vaccination sites will remain open, as will the mass vaccination site at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake. Officials there said that the need to switch employees frequently in the cold can cause delays.
Northwestern University professor Hani Mahmassani, a specialist in transport and logistics, said vaccination clinics are unlikely to attend.
“There will be staffing problems,” she explained, “and there will also be no attendance in terms of patients. And in some cases, you don’t want patients to go out in this climate, especially for some older people who are the current group being vaccinated. “
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Deaths reported on Saturday include:
– Champaign County: 1 woman 70 years old, 1 woman 80 years old
– Clay County: 1 80 year old woman
– Cook County: 3 men aged 50, 1 woman aged 60, 5 men aged 60, 2 women aged 70, 1 man aged 70, 5 men aged 80, 2 men aged 90
– DeKalb County: 1 woman from the 80s
– DuPage County: 2 women 70 years old, 1 man 70 years old, 2 men 80 years old
– Edgar County: 1 male 70 years old, 1 male 90 years old
– Jackson County: 1 man from the 90s
– Jefferson County: 1 man 70 years old, 1 woman 80 years old
– Johnson County: 1 man from the 80s
– Kane County: 1 woman 70 years old, 1 woman 80 years old, 1 woman 90 years old
– Lake County: 1 70 year old man
– County of LaSalle: 1 man 40 years old
– Livingston County: 1 male 80 years old, 1 male 90 years old
– Macon County: 1 70 year old man
– McHenry County: 1 woman 70 years old
– Montgomery County: 1 man 50 years, 1 woman 80 years, 1 woman 90 years
– County of Moultrie: 1 man from the 90s
– Peoria County: 1 man 60 years old, 2 men 80 years old
– St. Clair County: 1 male 80 years old, 1 male 90 years old
– Stephenson County: 1 man from the 80s
– Union County: 1 man aged 70
– Will County: 1 woman 70 years old, 1 man 70 years old
– Williamson County: 1 man 60 years old, 1 woman 80 years old, 1 man 80 years old
– Winnebago County: 1 woman from the 80s
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