DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing resident contracts COVID-19; county reports 18 new cases

DeKalb County Rehabilitation and Nursing Center reported a third resident with the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, the third case in the facility in two days according to the DeKalb County Health Department.

The facility reported two cases in staff members on Tuesday, and Wednesday's report of a resident brings the tally to three. The long-term care facility had previously been out of outbreak mode back in June. Willow Crest Nursing Pavilion in Sandwich, after reporting two cases on Tuesday for the first time in weeks, reported no new cases on Tuesday.

The county health department also identified 18 new cases on Wednesday, bringing the total to 1,195. There were five new cases in residents under 20, 11 in their 20s, one in their 40s and one in their 50s.

In total, there have been reported 156 cases among residents younger than 20, 339 in their 20s, 185 in their 30s, 151 in their 40s, 146 in their 50s, 85 in their 60s, 63 in their 70s and 70 in their 80s or older.

According to county data, the city of DeKalb reports between 566 to 570 cases. There are 171 to 175 cases in Sycamore; 141 to 145 in Sandwich; 96 to 100 cases in Genoa; 61 to 65 cases in Cortland; 26 to 30 in Hinckley; 21 to 25 cases in Kirkland and Kingston; 16 to 20 in Somonauk and Malta; 11 to 15 in Waterman; and six to 10 in Shabbona. Esmond, Earlville and Maple Park each report one to five cases.

The Illinois Department of Public Health lists cases and tests performed by ZIP code, while the county health department lists cases by municipality. Numbers vary between state and health departments because of data lags.

The 60115 ZIP code, including DeKalb, had 547 cases reported and 9,310 tests administered (a positivity rate of 5.9%); the 60178 ZIP code, including Sycamore, had 174 cases and 4,095 tests (4.2%); the 60548 ZIP code, including Sandwich, had 3,338 tests and 208 cases (6.2%); the 60112 ZIP code, including Cortland, had 60 cases and 892 tests (6.7%); the 60135 ZIP code, including Genoa, had 93 cases and 1,406 tests (6.6%); the 60145 ZIP code, including Kingston, had 24 cases and 360 tests (6.7%) and the 60146 ZIP code, including Kirkland, had 28 cases and 482 tests (5.8%).

In total, IDPH reported 238,643 people in Illinois have tested positive for COVID-19, while 8,091 people have died statewide. As of Wednesday, 4,119,873 tests have been performed. The site also lists statewide recovery rates, calculated by recovered cases divided by the sum of recovered cases and dead cases. The statewide recovery remained at 95%.

According to the weekly testing and recovery data released by the county on Friday, 28 more residents recovered from the virus last week, leaving 279 cases in the recovery period.

As of Friday, there have been 24,392 tests administered locally. That would be a 4.7% positivity rate according to the county data (total cases divided by positive and negative tests), but a new metric on the county site lists the positivity rate (based on IDPH metrics website) at 5.3%.