March 28, 2024
Coronavirus

Illinois’ COVID-19 total hospitalizations see an increase after long weekend

New COVID-19 hospital admissions remain at 108 per day

A pedestrian wearing a protective mask as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus walks in Philadelphia, Friday, April 22, 2022.  The city abandoned its indoor mask mandate Friday, just days after becoming the first U.S. metropolis to reimpose compulsory masking in response to an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 10,862 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 12 additional deaths for Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday combined. IDPH does not update its data on weekends or holidays.

The new cases come as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest data show the BA.5 variant - a highly transmissible variant in the omicron lineage of variants – is now the dominant COVID-19 variant in the country as well as the region that includes Illinois.

For Friday-Monday, the state administered 24,441 vaccines.

From the IDPH’s data dashboard:

Case rate per 100,000: 28 (-3.6 from Friday)

Percentage of ICU beds available: 26%

COVID-19 diagnosed hospital admissions (7-day rolling average): 108 (Same as Friday)

Weekly deaths reported: 74

Illinois has seen 3,446,267 total cases of the virus, and 34,162 people have died.

As of late Monday, Illinois had 1,190 COVID-19 patients in the hospital, an increase of 20 patients from Friday. Of those, 141 were in intensive care units, and 40 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
Bureau19.92711
Chicago2521207
DeKalb25.92812
DuPage29.24595
Grundy20.72702
Kane24.44542
Kendall29.82710
Lake28.22765
La Salle25.22701
Lee232800
McHenry22.12721
Ogle19.42800
Suburban
Cook
28.9222412
Whiteside192812
Will29.32463

Vaccine update: As of Tuesday, IDPH reported a total of 28,175,645 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed statewide, with 22,701,790 vaccines administered.

As of Tuesday, 8,303,448 Illinoisans have been fully vaccinated, or 65.17% of the population. Illinois has a population of 12,741,080 people.

CDC numbers:

Among Illinois residents 5 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 8,740,431 (73.3%)

At Least 1 Dose: 9,653,840 (81%)

Among Illinois residents 12 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 8,318,579 (76.8%)

At Least 1 Dose: 9,181,013 (84.7%)

Among Illinois residents 18 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 7,677,887 (77.9%)

At Least 1 Dose: 8,479,544 (86.1%)

Among Illinois residents 65 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 1,822,412 (89.2%)

At Least 1 Dose: 1,971,134 (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: 68.88%

Suburban Cook: 72.69%

Lake: 70.19%

McHenry: 65.75%

DuPage: 75.45%

Kane: 66.35%

Will: 66.67%

Kendall: 69.05%

La Salle: 58.34%

Grundy: 57.71%

DeKalb: 56.59%

Ogle: 56.96%

Lee: 58.92%

Whiteside: 51.85%

Bureau: 56.79%

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.