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McHenry County Department of Health not reporting COVID-19 cases because of error with dashboard system

Daily updates on COVID-19 data will be suspended until error is resolved

By Kelli Duncan
This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses

Coronavirus graphic from the CDC

The McHenry County Department of Health is experiencing an error in the system it uses to update its COVID-19 dashboard, which contains data on the county’s COVID-19 cases and related deaths as well as hospitalization data and vaccine shipment numbers.

According to a notice posted at the top of the dashboard website Friday, the health department will resume its daily updates of the dashboard’s data once they are able to resolve the error and the system is once again operational.

The error has not and will not impact the county’s ability to conduct contact tracing when a new case is identified, according to the notice.

As of Thursday – the last day the dashboard was updated – McHenry County reported a total of 24,527 confirmed and probable cases, 262 confirmed deaths and 29 deaths where the cause likely was COVID-19 but not confirmed. The county’s recovery rate sat at 98% as of Thursday evening.

The Illinois Department of Public Health’s county-specific data put McHenry County’s totals at 24,699 cases, 266 deaths and 276,693 residents tested for COVID-19 as of Monday afternoon.

Statewide, the IDPH reported a total of 1,199,517 confirmed cases and 20,767 related deaths on Monday. So far, Illinois has conducted 18,679,826 COVID-19 tests. The statewide recovery rate is 98%.