Illinois announced 130 additional deaths from COVID-19 and 2,887 more confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday.
The Illinois Department of Public Health said that 14% of 20,671 total tests in the previous 24 hours came back positive. This is the first day Illinois hit more than 20,000 tests in a day.
Illinois has now seen 73,760 total cases of the virus and 3,241 total people have died. A total of 399,714 people have been tested.
As of late Thursday night, Illinois had 4,750 COVID-19 patients in the hospital. Of those, 1,222 were in the ICU and 727 were on ventilators. The state had 10,125 open hospital beds.
Newly reported deaths include 89 in Cook County. Six people died in DuPage and Will, five in Kane and Lake, four in McHenry and Sangamon, two in Madison and St. Clair, and one each in Boone, Jasper, Kankakee, La Salle, Macon and Williamson counties.
As of Thursday, Chicago has seen 29,535 confirmed cases of COVID-19, while the rest of Cook County has seen 20,701.
Lake County has seen 4,985 confirmed cases, DuPage 4,374, Will 3,561, Kane 2,668, McHenry 897, Kendall 373, DeKalb 160, Ogle 141, Whiteside 101, La Salle 93, Lee 63, Grundy 55, Bureau 13 and Carroll 10.
On Thursday, the Northeast region (Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, McHenry, Lake and Will counties) had a positivity rate of 21.8% and ran 13,681 tests. The region also had an average of 18% of medical/surgical beds available, 19% of ICU beds available and 64% of ventilators available.
The North Central region (Bureau, DeKalb, La Salle, Lee, Ogle, Whiteside, Carroll, Boone, Winnebago, Stephenson, Putnam and Jo Daviess counties) had a positivity rate of 8.3% and completed 2,139 tests. On average, there was an availability of 42% of medical/surgical beds, 41% of ICU beds and 69% of ventilators.
The Central region had an 4.6 positivity rate and completed 1,253 tests. On average, there was an availability of 53% of medical/surgical beds, 46% of ICU beds and 71% of ventilators.
The Southern region had about a 11.2% positivity rate and 825 total tests. On average, there was an availability of 46% of medical/surgical beds, 29% of ICU beds and 80% of ventilators.
Threshold for next phase: In addition to having testing available for patients, health care workers, first responders, people with underlying conditions, and residents and staff in congregate living facilities, and contact tracing and monitoring in place 24 hours after diagnosis, regions must hit the following thresholds to move on to the next phase in the Restore Illinois plan:
At or under a 20 percent positive rate and increasing no more than 10 percentage points over a 14-day period, AND
No overall increase (i.e. stability or decrease) in hospital admissions for COVID-19-like illness for 28 days, AND
Available surge capacity of at least 14 percent of ICU beds, medical and surgical beds, and ventilators.
Source: The Daily Chronicle
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