Four more COVID-19 deaths over weekend with 76 cases

DeKalb County death toll nears 100

Enrique Jones, (left) an HR Support site manager, and Adebayo Adeniyan, a phlebotomist from HR Support, take a sample from a patron on a cold Tuesday afternoon at the COVID-19 testing location in the parking lot at the Kishwaukee Family YMCA in Sycamore.

While DeKalb County’s region entered into Phase 4 to open up more indoor dining, youth sports and other eased mitigations, four more residents died from COVID-19 over the weekend.

Three residents were in their 80s, two men and a woman, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. There also was a person in their 70s, according to the DeKalb County Health Department, bringing the local death toll to 92. Two of the deaths appear to be residents of the DeKalb County Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, its first reported deaths.

The DeKalb County Health Department also announced 76 new cases were identified over the past three days, bringing the total to 7,831.

MunicipalityCasesTestsPositivity rate
DeKalb3,25145,6467.122%
Sycamore1,60617,3389.263%
Maple Park2692,7169.904%
Shabbona11411429.982%

DeKalb County Rehabilitation and Nursing Center was the only long-term care facility in the county to report a death, reporting its first two deaths while it remained at 117 cases. No new cases were reported at any long-term care facility.

The positivity rate in Region 1, which runs north to Rockford and west to the Iowa border, dropped to 5.7%, the third straight day under the 6.5% threshold to enter Phase 4. DeKalb had the second-highest rate in the region at 10.1%, down from 10.8% the day prior.

Among the new cases, 15 were in residents 19 or younger, 20 were in their 20s, 14 were in their 30s, 15 in their 40s, three in their 50s, three in their 60s, three in their 70s and three in their 80s.

According to state data, 4,504 doses of the vaccine have been administered to DeKalb County residents either in the county or at another location, and 556 residents have been fully vaccinated as of Monday.

By the numbers

There currently are seven long-term care facilities in outbreak mode in DeKalb County.

DeKalb County Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in DeKalb has reported 117 cases (66 in staff and 51 in residents with two deaths), Oak Crest-DeKalb Area Retirement Center in DeKalb has reported 60 cases (29 in staff and 31 in residents with one death) and Bethany Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in DeKalb has reported 109 cases (46 in staff and 63 in residents with 10 deaths). Prairie Crossing Living and Rehabilitation Center in Shabbona has reported 88 cases (34 in staff and 54 in residents with eight deaths). Lincolnshire Place in Sycamore has reported 47 cases (17 in staff and 30 in residents with eight deaths), and Willow Crest Nursing Pavilion in Sandwich has reported eight cases (five in employees and three in residents). Pine Acres in DeKalb has 10 cases (five in staff and five in residents).

Some facilities are not designated long-term care by the county but are by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Opportunity House in Sycamore reported one new case, with 37 cases on the state website during the facility’s second documented outbreak, while Avancer Home in Genoa had 14 cases and one death as of Jan. 22, one more than the week before.

There have been 1,285 cases in DeKalb County residents 19 or younger, 1,828 in their 20s, 1,167 in their 30s, 1,115 in their 40s, 994 in their 50s, 682 in their 60s, 392 in their 70s and 368 in their 80s or older.

There have been 53 deaths reported in DeKalb County residents in their 80s or older, 16 in their 70s, 13 in their 60s, six in their 50s, three in their 40s, one in their 30s and one infant.

According to county data, DeKalb has seen between 3,216 and 3,320 cases. There are between 1,591 and 1,595 cases in Sycamore; 706 and 710 in Sandwich and Plano (listed as one region on the site); 641 and 645 in Genoa; 346 and 350 cases in Cortland; 196 and 200 cases in Kirkland; 191 and 195 Hinckley; 176 and 180 in Kingston; 151 and 155 cases in Somonauk; 101 and 105 in Shabbona; 96 to 100 in Waterman; 91 and 95 in Malta; 56 and 60 in Maple Park; 16 and 20 in Clare; 11 and 15 in Earlville and Esmond; and six and 10 in Lee and Leland. Marengo and Rochelle each report between one and five cases.

The DeKalb County website only lists residents who live within county lines for a municipality, while the Illinois Department of Public Health website lists everyone within a certain ZIP code. Numbers also may vary because of data lags.

The 60115 ZIP code, including DeKalb, had 3,251 cases reported and 45,646 tests administered (a positivity rate of 7.1%); the 60178 ZIP code, including Sycamore, had 1,606 cases and 17,338 tests (9.3%); the 60111 ZIP code, including Clare, reported 19 cases and 187 tests (10.2%); the 60112 ZIP code, including Cortland, had 341 cases and 3,507 tests (9.8%); the 60135 ZIP code, including Genoa, had 638 cases and 5,286 tests (12.1%); the 60145 ZIP code, including Kingston, had 173 cases and 1,438 tests (12%); the 60146 ZIP code, including Kirkland, had 220 cases and 1,928 tests (11.4%); the 60150 ZIP code, including Malta, had 88 cases and 1,157 tests (7.6%); the 60151 ZIP code, including parts of Maple Park in both DeKalb and Kane counties, had 269 cases and 2,716 tests (9.9%); the 60520 ZIP code, including Hinckley, had 188 cases and 1,958 tests (9.6%); the 60548 ZIP code, including Sandwich, had 1,087 cases and 10,601 tests (10.3%); the 60550 ZIP code, including Shabbona, had 114 cases and 1,142 tests (10%); and the 60556 ZIP code, including Waterman, had 94 cases and 1,074 tests (8.8%).

The IDPH reported 1,101,819 people in Illinois have tested positive for COVID-19, while 18,750 people have died statewide. There have been 15,409,832 tests performed.

In recovery and testing data released weekly on Fridays, the county has run 91,033 tests to date. There have been 6,751 recoveries and 915 active cases.

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