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Wednesday, May 27, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced 1,111 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including 160 additional deaths.

Clinton County: 1 male 60s
Coles County: 1 female 80s, 1 male 80s, 1 female 100+
Cook County: 1 female 30s, 2 males 40s, 3 females 50s, 4 males 50s, 8 females 60s, 14 males 60s, 7 females 70s, 20 males 70s, 17 females 80s, 13 males 80s, 8 females 90s, 4 males 90s, 1 unknown 90s
DuPage County: 1 male 40s, 1 male 50s, 1 female 60s, 1 female 70s, 1 male 80s, 1 female 90s
Kane County: 1 female 60s, 3 females 70s, 3 males 70s, 1 female 80s, 1 male 90s
Kankakee County: 1 female 80s
Lake County: 1 male 40s, 1 male 50s, 1 male 60s, 4 females 70s, 1 male 70s, 2 females 80s, 1 male 80s, 7 females 90s, 2 males 90s
Madison County: 1 unknown 70s
McDonough County: 1 male 80s, 1 female 90s
McHenry County: 1 male 80s
McLean County: 1 female 50s, 1 female 70s, 1 female 90s
Randolph County: 1 female 80s
Rock Island County: 1 female 80s
Sangamon County: 1 female 80s
Will County: 1 female 50s, 1 female 60s, 1 male 60s, 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s, 1 male 80s
Williamson County: 1 male 50s
Winnebago County: 1 female 50s

Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 114,306 cases, including 5,083 deaths, in 100 counties in Illinois. The age of cases ranges from younger than one to older than 100 years. Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported 17,179 specimens for a total of 803,973. The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity from May 20-26 is 8.6%.

*All data are provisional and will change. In order to rapidly report COVID-19 information to the public, data are being reported in real-time. Information is constantly being entered into an electronic system and the number of cases and deaths can change as additional information is gathered.

I’ll post hospitalization numbers when I get them.

…Adding… The governor said that, as of midnight last night, 3,826 are in the hospital with COVID-19, of those 1,031 are in the ICU and 592 are on a ventilator.

3 Comments

- Hot Taeks - Wednesday, May 27, 20 @ 2:53 pm:
Not great but there was obviously a massive backlog from the 3-day weekend. Interesting to see McLean County record 3 deaths.

- MyTwoCents - Wednesday, May 27, 20 @ 4:25 pm:
It’s now the second day in a row the state has been below 20,000 in tests. I wonder if that’s just the slow start to the week after the holiday or something else. A couple weeks back the Washington Post had an article on a decreasing demand for tests, and in IL there was that kerfuffle about the Bloomington drive thru site and now the new Champaign site is only doing 150 tests/day when there’s a capacity for 750.
https://www.news-gazette.com/coronavirus/coronavirus-response-lines-for-drive-thru-testing-site-nearly-nonexistent/article_ab1394d9-838b-574f-84d6-f0ff145676b7.html
I’m curious about the supply vs. demand situation in IL. What’s our daily capacity? I also wonder if it wouldn’t be better to have more mobile testing options. For example, instead of having the site set up in Champaign, there would be a daily pop-up site with say 250 tests in small towns all around the Champaign area, every day going to a different town.

- Druid Eye - Wednesday, May 27, 20 @ 5:11 pm:
-MyTwoCents…..I think your idea of mobile Covid Tests from town to town…. is an excellent idea. Hope the Governor looks at that.

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