March 28, 2024
Coronavirus

Illinois’ COVID-19 case rate, hospitalizations showing decline

FILE - Vials for the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are seen at a temporary clinic in Exeter, N.H. on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. The Food and Drug Administration has authorized another booster dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for people age 50 and up, Tuesday, March 29, 2022.   (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 8,663 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and seven additional deaths for Friday, Saturday and Sunday combined. IDPH does not update its data dashboard on weekends.

For Friday-Sunday, the state administered 26,149 vaccines.

From the IDPH’s data dashboard:

Case rate per 100,000: 32.4 (-5.7 from Friday, lowest point since May 5)

Percentage of ICU beds available: 24%

COVID-19 diagnosed hospital admissions (7-day rolling average): 99 (-8 from Friday)

Weekly deaths reported: 73

Illinois has seen 3,361,646 total cases of the virus, and 33,933 people have died.

As of late Sunday, Illinois had 1,144 COVID-19 patients in the hospital, a decrease of 45 patients from Friday. Of those, 117 were in intensive care units, and 31 were on ventilators.

County-by-county update: As of mid-April, the IDPH will provide a county-by-county update focusing on the case rate per 100,000 people, the percentage of ICU beds available, a rolling seven-day average of COVID-19 diagnosed hospital admissions and weekly deaths.

The definition of a COVID-19 diagnosed hospital admission is as follows: The seven-day average of daily number of hospital admissions given a diagnosis of COVID-19 as measured using the Illinois Syndromic Surveillance System.

Illinois collects all emergency department and inpatient visits through syndromic surveillance from all acute care hospitals in Illinois in near-real time. Data is presented with a three-day lag to allow time for diagnosis to be reported.

At the county level, a visit is counted by where the patient resides. A patient with multiple visits will be counted for each visit. Admissions may not be because of COVID-19 as the primary cause. Syndromic surveillance data is not the same source used by CDC to report COVID-19 hospital admissions data.

CountyCase Rate/100,000% available ICU bedsCOVID-19 diagnosed hospital admissions
(7-day rolling average)
Weekly
deaths
Bureau18.62400
Chicago31.424177
DeKalb29.22710
DuPage34.53461
Grundy27.22400
Kane24.83432
Kendall35.42411
Lake34.13062
La Salle292410
Lee532700
McHenry22.53041
Ogle30.92710
Suburban
Cook
32.518214
Whiteside24.92711
Will30.72474

Vaccine update: As of Monday, the IDPH reported a total of 27,773,745 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed statewide, with 22,511,573 vaccines administered.

As of Monday, 8,288,432 Illinoisans have been fully vaccinated, or 65.05% of the population. Illinois has a population of 12,741,080 people.

CDC numbers:

Among Illinois residents 5 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 8,733,628 (73.2%)

At Least 1 Dose: 9,655,243 (81%)

Among Illinois residents 12 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 8,313,009 (76.7%)

At Least 1 Dose: 9,183,088 (84.7%)

Among Illinois residents 18 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 7,673,574 (77.9%)

At Least 1 Dose: 8,482,837 (86.1%)

Among Illinois residents 65 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 1,821,278 (89.1%)

At Least 1 Dose: 1,971,754 (95%)

There can be as much as a 72-hour delay in reporting from health care providers on vaccines administered.

In northern Illinois, here is the percentage of the population fully vaccinated by county:

Chicago: 68.76%

Suburban Cook: 72.55%

Lake: 70.02%

McHenry: 65.64%

DuPage: 75.34%

Kane: 66.25%

Will: 66.54%

Kendall: 68.87%

La Salle: 58.28%

Grundy: 57.62%

DeKalb: 56.51%

Ogle: 56.89%

Lee: 58.89%

Whiteside: 51.83%

Bureau: 56.77%

John Sahly

John Sahly

John Sahly is the digital editor for the Shaw Local News Network. He has been with Shaw Media since 2008, previously serving as the Northwest Herald's digital editor, and the Daily Chronicle sports editor and sports reporter.