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Illinois public health officials reported 7,574 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 as well as 66 deaths on Friday.
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The total number of cases in Illinois now stands at 705,063, with a total of 12,029 deaths.
It took just nine days for public health officials to record 1,000 deaths, according to an Associated Press review of data, which marks the deadliest period of the pandemic, in late April and early May.
Over a 24-hour period, officials said the state processed 77,130 specimens. A total of 10,289,223 samples have been tested since the start of the pandemic in Illinois.
The statewide seven-day pre-test positivity from Nov. 20 to Nov. 26 is 12.2 percent.
As of Thursday evening, 5,829 people in Illinois were reportedly hospitalized with COVID-19. Of these, 1,215 patients were in intensive care with COVID-19 and 698 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
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But millions of people ignored the warnings and left their homes this week. Experts fear this could translate into even more infections and deaths in the weeks to come, at a time when colder weather is forcing people inside and closer.
After a calm summer that lulled some into complacency, the virus returned aggressively in October. Illinois marked its 11,000th death on Nov. 18, after recording 1,000 deaths in just 13 days, then climbing 1,000 in nine days to 12,000.
This matches the numbers for the pandemic’s spring nadir, when deaths dropped from 2,000 to 4,000 in 17 days, from April 29 to May 15.
Likewise, the spread of infection has not slowed down. It took 17 days for the number of confirmed cases to rise from 500,000 to 700,000. Since March 5, which marks the start of the period in which new cases are reported each day, 159 days have passed. that the 200,000th case is not recorded on August 13.
The state doubled that number, reaching 400,000 after 77 days and climbing to 600,000 in 19 days.
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Tests for the virus are much more available now than in the spring. The 77,000 test results recorded on Friday were the first day in nearly three weeks that the total fell below 90,000, a period in which the results have averaged over 100,000 per day.
But state health officials have argued that the increase in testing can hardly explain the exponential growth in cases.
The difficult fall has stretched the capacity of hospitals and, more importantly, health workers are running out as there is no borrowing from other states as last spring. The Belleville News-Democrat reported on Friday that 87% of staffed hospital beds in the eastern metropolitan area – the suburb of St. Louis, Illinois – were full.
The number of people hospitalized in Illinois fell below 6,000 for the first time since Nov. 18, but those who remain are sicker. The 1,215 patients in the intensive care units represented a 6% increase over those nine days. The most seriously ill – those who need respiratory assistance to breathe – fell to 698 on Friday, but that was a 28% increase from November 18.
Deaths reported Thursday include:
-Office count: 1 man from the 90s
– Clark County: 1 man from the 80s
-Clay County: 1 woman from the 90s
-Clinton County: 1 man from the 80s
-Cook County: 1 man 30 years old, 1 man 40 years old, 2 women 50 years old, 2 men 50 years old, 3 men 60 years old, 3 women 70 years old, 3 men 70 years old, 4 women 80 years old, 2 men 80 years old, 4 women 90 years old, 1 man 90 years old
-DeKalb County: 1 woman from the 80s
-DuPage County: 2 men from the 70s, 1 man from the 80s, 1 woman from the 90s
-County of Fayette: 1 woman from the 1960s
-Hardin County: 1 man from the 80s
-Henry County: 1 woman from the 80s
-Kane County: 1 woman from the 70s
-Kendall County: 2 women from the 90s, 1 man from the 90s
-Lake County: 1 woman from the 60s, 1 woman from the 70s, 1 man from the 70s, 1 woman from the 80s, 1 man from the 80s
-County of LaSalle: 1 man from the 80s
-Livingston County: 1 man from the 1960s
-County of Macon: 2 men from the 80s
-County of Marion: 1 woman from the 70s
-McHenry County: 1 man from the 80s
– Monroe County: 1 man from the 80s
-Morgan County: 1 man from the 80s
– Rock Island County: 1 woman from the 80s
-Saline County: 1 woman from the 80s
-Vermilion County: 1 woman from the 1970s
-Will County: 1 60s woman, 3 70s women, 1 80s woman, 1 90s woman
-County of Winnebago: 1 man from the 80s
-Woodford County: 1 woman from the 1970s
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