1,980 new cases, 50 additional deaths
Monday, Apr 27, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Press release…
– The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced 1,980 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including 50 additional deaths.
- Boone County: 1 female 90s
- Champaign County: 1 female 60s
- Cook County: 1 female 30s, 1 male 30s, 2 males 40s, 2 females 50s, 3 males 50s,
1 female 60s, 2 males 60s, 3 females 70s, 8 males 70s, 4 females 80s, 6 males 80s, 1 male
90s
- DuPage County: 1 male 60s, 1 male 70s
- Jasper County: 1 female 80s
- Jefferson County: 1 female 80s, 1 male 80s, 1 female 90s
- Madison County: 1 female 60s
- Rock Island County: 1 male 50s, 1 male 70s
- Sangamon County: 2 males 80s
- Will County: 1 male 50s, 1 male 70s, 1 female 80s
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 45,883 cases, including 1,983 deaths, in 96 counties in Illinois. The age of cases ranges from younger than one to older than 100 years. Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have processed 12,676 specimens for a total of 227,628.
- Captain Who - Monday, Apr 27, 20 @ 3:12 pm:
Why doesn’t the state regularly report the number of recovered cases? Other states do. In my opinion, just reporting total cases can make it seem worse than it is. If an area has 50 total cases but 30 have recovered and 5 have died, that leaves 15 known active cases in that area. Fifty sounds much worse than fifteen.
- Anyone Remember - Monday, Apr 27, 20 @ 3:17 pm:
“Why doesn’t the state regularly report the number of recovered cases?”
So, emergency JCAR rules mandating ALL health care providers report daily to their local health department, even if 0 recoveries?
Let’s run that one by IPI / Tillman … /s
- Terry Salad - Monday, Apr 27, 20 @ 3:28 pm:
The number of recoveries is more difficult to establish, define, and record. If a person tests positive, they are recorded. If they die, they are recorded. A person who tests positive and does not die, recovers. But, that can take some time and a positive test does not indicate how “far along” in the course of infection a person is. Plus, a person may also then die of something else (and thus, not recover at all). It is simply not a stat that Public Health officials try to record, although it should become clear from the data afterwards. The KEY stat is number of deaths per day. Since testing is merely sampling and we do not know what percentage of ALL infections are being identified via tests (is it 10 percent? is it more/less? we don’t know), DEATHS is, unfortunately, the best indicator of progress against this pandemic. And, deaths do seem to be trending down.