* Dr. Ezike at today’s media briefing…
We have over the last 24 hours 14,974 tests with 2,270 being positive, that’s a 15% positivity rate. We’ve run a total of 361,260 tests for COVID-19. And we’ve had a total of 68,232 total cases. Over the last 24 hours, we were limited to 136 new COVID deaths, which brings our death total to 2974.
In the hospital we have 4832 individuals who are hospitalized with COVID 19 illness. Of those in the hospital 1231 are in the ICU and 80 patients are currently on ventilators.
* Press release…
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced 2,270 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including 136 additional deaths.
Cook County: 2 males 40s, 1 female 50s, 6 males 50s, 8 females 60s, 8 males 60s, 1 unknown 60s, 10 females 70s, 12 males 70s, 14 females 80s, 7 males 80s, 7 females 90s, 4 males 90s, 1 unknown 90s, 2 females 100+
DuPage County: 1 female 60s, 1 male 60s, 1 female 70s, 2 males 70s, 2 female 80s, 1 male 80s, 2 females 90s, 2 males 90s
Kane County: 1 male 50s, 1 female 60s, 1 female 70s, 1 male 70s, 3 females 90s, 1 male 90s, 1 female 100+
Kendall County: 1 male 30s
Lake County: 1 female 60s, 2 females 70s, 2 males 80s, 4 females 90s, 1 male 90s, 1 female 100+
LaSalle County: 1 female 80s
Madison County: 1 female 80s
McHenry County: 1 male 60s, 1 female 70s
Peoria County: 1 male 50s
Rock Island County: 2 females 90s
St. Clair County: 1 female 80s
Will County: 1 male 60s, 2 females 70s, 1 male 70s, 2 females 80s, 3 females 90s, 1 male 90s
Winnebago County: 1 female 70s, 1 male 70s
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 68,232 cases, including 2,974 deaths, in 97 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 14,974 specimens for a total of 361,260.
 
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- walker - Wednesday, May 6, 20 @ 2:42 pm:
Check number of tests in last 24 hrs.
- GADawg - Wednesday, May 6, 20 @ 2:47 pm:
IDPH is reporting a total of 68,232 cases. I’m still not sure if that is current cases, or includes people who have recovered. Dr. Ezike said, “We’ve had…” Is anybody reporting recovery numbers? And I know there’s disagreement about defining recovery.
- Donnie Elgin - Wednesday, May 6, 20 @ 2:58 pm:
Considering that tests are not offered to the general public - but rather to a limited group based on IDPH criteria, most notably those showing COVID-19 symptoms, this is relatively good news ..
“We have over the last 24 hours 14,974 tests with 2,270 being positive, that’s a 15% positivity rate”
- Demoralized - Wednesday, May 6, 20 @ 3:12 pm:
== I’m still not sure if that is current cases, or includes people who have recovered.==
It includes recovered people. That is the total count of positive tests. I would imagine that a good portion of those have recovered.
- Lynn S. - Wednesday, May 6, 20 @ 3:17 pm:
We might want to be careful about saying “recovered from Covid-19″.
I was reading something last night that suggests some evidence that you can also shed Covid-19 through your intestinal tract, even after your nasal test says you have no virus.
The writer’s advice was to never use a public restroom when somebody else was also there.
“Ugh”, on so many levels.
- In_The_Middle - Wednesday, May 6, 20 @ 3:20 pm:
Was yesterday’s 780 on ventilators a typo or is today’s 80 on ventilators a typo?
- Because I said so.... - Wednesday, May 6, 20 @ 3:44 pm:
=Considering that tests are not offered to the general public - but rather to a limited group based on IDPH criteria, most notably those showing COVID-19 symptoms, this is relatively good news ..
“We have over the last 24 hours 14,974 tests with 2,270 being positive, that’s a 15% positivity rate”=
But that doesn’t take into account all the folks walking around that are A-symptomatic.
- ChattyHam - Wednesday, May 6, 20 @ 3:46 pm:
So far, due to COVID-19 we’ve lost the equivalent of the entire population of North Barrington, Illinois.
- Jeff - Wednesday, May 6, 20 @ 8:38 pm:
I really wish he would just cancel summer camps already and give parents time to prepare. It’s just false hope to think they will happen and leave many scrambling.
- thoughts matter - Wednesday, May 6, 20 @ 11:09 pm:
Tests are now being given to those people who are having elective procedures done under the guidelines for this month.
So the positivity rate should start decreasing as more presumably negative people are being tested.