Illinois down to 100 COVID-19 patients in the ICU for first time since mid-May

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 3,644 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 18 additional deaths for Friday, Saturday and Sunday combined. IDPH does not update its data dashboard on weekends or holidays.

As of late Sunday, Illinois had 869 COVID-19 patients in the hospital. Of those, 100 were in intensive care units, the fewest since May 16 and 34 were on ventilators.

For Friday-Sunday, the state administered 76,461 vaccines.

From the IDPH’s data dashboard:

Case rate per 100,000: 12.2 (down 0.1 from Friday’s update)

Percentage of ICU beds available: 24%

COVID-19-diagnosed hospital admissions (seven-day rolling average): 74 (down 4 from Friday’s update)

Weekly deaths reported: 64

Illinois has seen 3,765,864 total cases of the virus, and 35,029 people have died.

County-by-county update: As of mid-April, the IDPH will provide a county-by-county update focusing on the case rate per 100,000 people, the percentage of ICU beds available, a rolling seven-day average of COVID-19-diagnosed hospital admissions and weekly deaths.

The definition of a COVID-19-diagnosed hospital admission is as follows: the seven-day average of daily number of hospital admissions given a diagnosis of COVID-19 as measured using the Illinois Syndromic Surveillance System.

Illinois collects all emergency department and inpatient visits through syndromic surveillance from all acute care hospitals in Illinois in near-real time. Data is presented with a three-day lag to allow time for diagnosis to be reported.

At the county level, a visit is counted by where the patient resides. A patient with multiple visits will be counted for each visit. Admissions may not be because of COVID-19 as the primary cause. Syndromic surveillance data is not the same source used by the CDC to report COVID-19 hospital admissions data.

Vaccine update: As of Monday, the IDPH reported a total of 29,491,875 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed statewide, with 23,893,796 vaccines administered.

As of Monday, 8,370,679 Illinoisans have been fully vaccinated, or 65.70% of the population. Illinois has a population of 12,741,080 people.

CDC numbers:

Among Illinois residents 5 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 8,846,510 (74.2%)

At Least 1 Dose: 9,781,607 (82%)

Among Illinois residents 12 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 8,407,380 (77.6%)

At Least 1 Dose: 9,285,123 (85.7%)

Among Illinois residents 18 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 7,756,282 (78.7%)

At Least 1 Dose: 8,572,158 (87%)

Among Illinois residents 65 and older:

Fully Vaccinated: 1,840,763 (90.1%)

At Least 1 Dose: 1,990,430 (95%)

There can be as much as a 72-hour delay in reporting from health care providers on vaccines administered.

In northern Illinois, here is the percentage of the population fully vaccinated by county:

Chicago: 69.35%

Suburban Cook: 73.30%

Lake: 70.99%

McHenry: 66.33%

DuPage: 76.02%

Kane: 66.92%

Will: 67.20%

Kendall: 70.02%

La Salle: 58.75%

Grundy: 58.08%

DeKalb: 56.87%

Ogle: 57.26%

Lee: 59.19%

Whiteside: 52.13%

Bureau: 56.96%