More than 20,000 McHenry County residents have been fully vaccinated, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

As of Wednesday, the IDPH reported a total of 3,567,927 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered statewide and 68,536 in McHenry County. So far, 6.68% (20,621 of 308,570) of county residents have been fully vaccinated, meaning they’ve received all of the doses recommended for the vaccine they received.

McHenry County received a total of 49,720 doses of COVID-19 vaccine between the time the county began receiving shipments from the state on Dec. 27 and March 7, according to McHenry County Department of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard. This number is comprised of 29,850 first doses of the vaccine and 19,870 second doses, according to the dashboard. The county received 3,740 first doses and no second doses in the latest shipment (for the week of March 7 to 13).

As of Wednesday, the McHenry County Department of Health still 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.

According to a notice posted at the top of the dashboard website, 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, March 4 – the last day the county’s 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 Wednesday evening.

The Illinois Department of Public Health’s county-specific data put McHenry County’s totals at 24,763 cases, 267 deaths and 278,473 residents tested for COVID-19 as of Wednesday afternoon.

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Last month, Region 9, which includes McHenry and Lake counties, moved from Tier 1 to Phase 4, allowing for competitive high school sports to play, loosening capacity limits for retail and personal care businesses and enabling restaurants to serve parties of up to 10 people. Reaching Phase 5 of Gov. JB Pritzker’s reopening plan will come only when infection rates are minimal and/or more Illinois residents have been vaccinated.

The region could return to increased mitigations if a number of metrics are met.

First, either the region’s positivity rate rises to 8% or higher for three consecutive days or it sees a sustained increase in test positivity rate.

As of Wednesday, McHenry County’s positivity rate was 5.6%, and Region 9 was at 3.5%. The region’s positivity rate has fallen three out of the past 10 days.

Second, the region also must see either a sustained increase in COVID-19 patients in the hospital or staffed intensive care unit bed availability fall below 20% for three consecutive days.

As of Wednesday, Region 9 had 34% of its ICU beds available. Region 9 also reported 10 days of decreases in hospital admissions for COVID-19 out of the past 10 days.

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The Kane County Health Department reported a total of 50,902 confirmed cases and 724 deaths Wednesday.

The Lake County Health Department reported a total of 55,171 confirmed cases and 940 related deaths Wednesday.

Statewide, the IDPH reported a total of 1,202,709 confirmed cases and 20,810 related deaths on Wednesday. So far, Illinois has conducted 18,804,759 COVID-19 tests. The statewide recovery rate is 98%.