March 29, 2024
Coronavirus

New COVID-19 hospitalizations in Illinois continue decline

State’s case rate remains 27.2 new cases per 100,000 people

FILE - A health worker administers a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.  Moderna on Thursday, April 28, 2022,  asked U.S. regulators to authorize low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 6, a long-awaited move toward potentially opening shots for millions of tots by summer.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 7,932 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 10 additional deaths for Friday, Saturday and Sunday combined. IDPH does not update its data dashboard on weekends.

As of late Sunday, Illinois had 1,331 COVID-19 patients in the hospital. Of those, 146 were in intensive care units, and 50 were on ventilators.

For Friday-Sunday, the state administered 14,479 vaccines.

From the IDPH’s data dashboard:

Case rate per 100,000: 27.2 (same as Friday)

Percentage of ICU beds available: 24%

COVID-19-diagnosed hospital admissions (seven-day rolling average): 114 (down 4 from Friday)

Weekly deaths reported: 82

Illinois has seen 3,678,190 total cases of the virus, and 34,687 people have died.

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 the 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
Bureau291700
Chicago19.9222010
DeKalb36.92311
DuPage23.63787
Grundy351702
Kane28.53730
Kendall27.41710
Lake24.93274
La Salle29.41710
Lee35.12300
McHenry26.73250
Ogle26.92311
Suburban
Cook
23.8212616
Whiteside46.52310
Will27.72965

Vaccine update: As of Monday, the IDPH reported a total of 29,255,475 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed statewide, with 23,228,337 vaccines administered.

As of Monday, 8,347,123 Illinoisans have been fully vaccinated, or 65.51% of the population. Illinois has a population of 12,741,080 people.

CDC numbers:

Among Illinois residents 5 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 8,795,328 (73.8%)

At Least 1 Dose: 9,716,216 (81.5%)

Among Illinois residents 12 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 8,362,615 (77.2%)

At Least 1 Dose: 9,224,722 (85.1%)

Among Illinois residents 18 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 7,714,598 (78.3%)

At Least 1 Dose: 8,515,041 (86.4%)

Among Illinois residents 65 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 1,830,292 (89.6%)

At Least 1 Dose: 1,976,947 (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: 69.23%

Suburban Cook: 73.05%

Lake: 70.65%

McHenry: 66.12%

DuPage: 75.79%

Kane: 66.72%

Will: 67.01%

Kendall: 69.66%

La Salle: 58.57%

Grundy: 57.97%

DeKalb: 56.78%

Ogle: 57.22%

Lee: 59.09%

Whiteside: 52.06%

Bureau: 56.96%

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.