The total number of cases in Illinois now stands at 918,070, with a total of 15,547 deaths.
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On Tuesday night, Illinois and Chicago had 100,991 more vaccines than any other state last night, more than any other in the nation, Gov. JB Pritzker said.
“The Illinois vaccination team quickly went above and beyond in the first week,” Governor Pritzker said.
Over a 24-hour period, officials said the state processed 82,328 copies. In all, there have been 12,688,071 specimens tested since the onset of the pandemic in Illinois.
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The positivity of the seven-day preliminary test in the state from December 16 to 22 is 9.0%.
The test positivity rate is a metric that the state began providing in late October. It is calculated using the total number of positive tests over the total number of tests. This is the metric that state health officials used to make decisions about mitigation.
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On Tuesday night, 4,593 people in Illinois were reported to have been hospitalized with COVID-19. Of these, 953 patients were in the ICU with COVID-19 and 536 patients with COVID-19 were with ventilators.
Cardinal Cupich is vaccinated
Cardinal Blase Cupich and several pastors in the Chicago area received the COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday at St. Louis Hospital. Anthony.
“We are here today to support St. Anthony’s Hospital’s effort to build confidence in this vaccine,” Cardinal Cupich said. “We wanted to make sure people were encouraged to get vaccinated and also to have confidence in them and realize that vaccination as the Holy Father told us is an opportunity to support the common good.”
This latest campaign to encourage vaccination comes as Chicago prepares to expand its distribution efforts.
Dr. Allison Arwady said that while the city receives shipments of the Modern vaccine, the focus will be on getting doses to long-term care centers and starting vaccination for outpatients such as medical offices and COVID-19 test sites.
Arwady says the city will start using its first mass vaccination sites as well next week.
The deaths reported on Wednesday include:
– Alexander County: 1 woman aged 60 years
– Brown County: 1 man from the 70s
– Carroll County: 1 man of 60 years
– Champaign County: 1 man of 20 years, 1 man of 80 years
– Clark County: 1 woman 90
– Cook County: 1 woman 40, 2 men 40, 1 man 50, 1 woman 60, 10 men 60, 5 women 70, 8 men 70, 8 women 80, 6 men 80, 3 women 90, 3 men 90, 1 woman more than 100
– DeKalb County: 1 man of 70 years, 1 woman of 80, 1 woman of 90
– DuPage County: 1 woman aged 60, 1 man aged 60, 1 man aged 80, 2 women aged 90, 1 woman over 100 years old
– Ford County: 1 man from the 70s
– Franklin County: 1 woman aged 50, 1 male aged 60, 1 woman aged 70
– Hardin County: 1 woman aged 80 years
– Henry County: 1 woman aged 80 years
– Jackson County: 1 woman 90
– Jefferson County: 1 woman 90
– Johnson County: 1 woman aged 80 years
– Kane County: 1 70-year-old woman, 2 80-year-old men
– Knox County: 1 woman aged 70, 1 woman aged 90
– Lake County: 1 woman 90
– LaSalle County: 1 50-year-old man
– Macon County: 2 women from the 90s
– Macoupin County: 1 woman aged 60 years
– Madison County: 1 man aged 70, 1 woman aged 90
– Marion County: 1 man from the 80s
– Marshall County: 1 man from the 70s
– Mason County: 1 man from the 80s
– County of Massac: 1 woman of 60 years
– McHenry County: 1 woman 80, 1 man 80, 1 woman 90, 1 man 90
– McLean County: 1 man from the 90s
– Morgan County: 1 woman aged 70 years
– Peoria County: 1 woman 80, 1 male 80, 1 male 90
– Pike County: 1 woman aged 70 years
– Rock Island County: 1 woman 80, 2 women 90
– Sangamon County: 2 women from the 60’s, 2 men from the 70’s, 1 woman from the 80’s, 1 woman from the 90’s
– Stephenson County: 1 woman 90
– Tazewell County: 1 woman from the 70’s, 1 man from the 80’s, 1 woman from the 90’s, 1 man from the 90’s
– County of Vermilion: 1 male of 60 years
– Wabash County: 1 woman aged 90 years
– Warren County: 1 woman aged 80 years
– Washington County: 2 women from the 80s, 1 woman from the 90s
– Will County: 2 men aged 60, 3 women aged 70, 1 man aged 70, 1 man aged 90
– Williamson County: 1 woman of 80 years, 1 man of 80 years
– Winnebago County: 1 male 60 years, 1 male 70 years, 1 female 90 years, 1 male 90 years
– Woodford County: 1 woman aged 60, 1 man aged 80
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