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 last 24 hours, laboratories have reported 90,295 specimens for a total of 16,555,035.
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As of Friday night, 2,271 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of these, 485 patients were in the ICU and 246 patients with COVID-19 with ventilators.
The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity test from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1. 5 is 4.2%.
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A total of 1,635,925 doses of vaccine have been delivered to Illinois providers, including Chicago, with an additional 496,100 doses allocated to federal government partners for long-term care facilities, making the number total deliveries in Illinois is 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 average of seven days of vaccines administered is 49,909.
The IDPH says vaccine distribution data are reported in real time and vaccine administration data is up to 72 hours.
Coronavirus testing sites in Chicago will remain closed due to “inclement weather” beginning Friday.
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 extend until next week. It is possible that temperatures will not rise above single digits and wind chills will reach below 30 degrees in what city officials called the “Arctic explosion.”
Anyone who needs tests in the next few days should contact their doctor.
“Honestly, from a safety perspective, we don’t want staff and volunteers to be potentially exposed,” said Dr. Allison Arwady, CDPH. “And there are availabilities on foot at the site. We don’t want people to be able to go up.”
Cold conditions also caused Loretto Hospital, on the west side, to move its indoor tests.
“We’re actually turning our ground floor physiotherapy room, which is quite large and very spacious, into a COVID testing area,” said Afya Khan, an infection control practitioner at Loretto Hospital.
The city’s inland vaccination sites will remain open, as will the mass vaccination site at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake. Officials said the need to rotate staff frequently out of the cold could cause delays.
Northwestern University professor Hani Mahmassani, a transportation and logistics expert, said vaccination clinics are unlikely to make presentations.
“There will be problems in the staffing staff,” he explained, “and there are also no presentations regarding patients. And in some cases, you don’t want patients to come out in this climate, especially for some older people who are current vaccinated group “.
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The deaths reported on Saturday include:
– Champaign County: 1 woman aged 70, 1 woman aged 80 years
– County Clay: 1 woman aged 80 years
– Cook County: 3 men 50 years, 1 woman 60 years, 5 men 60 years, 2 women 70 years, 1 man 70 years, 5 men 80 years, 2 men 90 years
– DeKalb County: 1 woman aged 80 years
– DuPage County: 2 women 70, 1 man 70, 2 men 80
– Edgar County: 1 man of 70 years, 1 man of 90 years
– Jackson County: 1 man from the 90s
– Jefferson County: 1 70-year-old man, 1 80-year-old woman
– Johnson County: 1 man from the 80s
– Kane County: 1 woman aged 70, 1 woman aged 80, 1 woman aged 90
– Lake County: 1 man from the 70’s
– LaSalle County: 1 40-year-old man
– Livingston County: 1 man of 80 years, 1 man of 90 years
– Macon County: 1 man from the 70s
– McHenry County: 1 woman aged 70 years
– Montgomery County: 1 man aged 50, 1 woman aged 80, 1 woman aged 90
– County of Moultrie: 1 man of the 90s
– Peoria County: 1 man aged 60, 2 men aged 80 years
– County of St. Clair: 1 male 80 years, 1 man 90 years
– Stephenson County: 1 man from the 80s
– Union County: 1 man from the 70s
– Will County: 1 woman of 70 years, 1 man of 70 years
– Williamson County: 1 60-year-old man, 1 80-year-old woman, 1 80-year-old man
– Winnebago County: 1 woman aged 80 years
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