9,935 new cases, 97 additional deaths, 3,891 hospitalized, 772 in the ICU, case positivity rate 9.1 percent, test positivity rate 10.5 percent, state surpasses 10,000 deaths
Thursday, Nov 5, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller
* I feel like I’m going to throw up reading this…
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported 9,935 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including 97 additional deaths.
Adams County: 1 female 80s, 1 female 90s
Carroll County: 1 female 80s
Clinton County: 1 male 70s, 1 male 80s, 1 female 90s
Coles County: 1 female 70s, 2 female 90s, 1 male 90s
Cook County: 1 male 20s, 2 males 50s, 1 female 60s, 5 males 60s, 2 females 70s, 4 males 70s, 3 females 80s, 5 males 80s, 7 females 90s, 1 male 90s
DeWitt County: 1 female 90s
Douglas County: 1 male 70s
DuPage County: 1 male 70s, 2 males 80s, 1 female 80s
Fayette County: 1 female 70s
Franklin County: 1 female 80s
Jackson County: 1 male 80s
Jo Daviess County: 1 male 90s
Kane County: 1 female 70s
Kankakee County: 1 male 80s
Knox County: 1 female 90s, 1 female 100+
Lake County: 1 male 70s, 1 female 80s, 2 females 90s, 1 male 90s
LaSalle County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s, 1 female 90s
Macon County: 1 male 60s, 1 female 90s
Madison County: 1 female 40s
McDonough County: 1 female 70s, 1 male 70s, 1 female 90s
McLean County: 1 female 30s
Monroe County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s, 1 male 80s
Morgan County: 1 female 60s
Peoria County: 1 female 70s, 2 females 80s
Pike County: 1 female 100+
Randolph County: 1 female 90s
Rock Island County: 1 female 80s, 1 female 90s
Saline County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s
Stephenson County: 1 female 90s
Tazewell County: 1 male 70s, 1 female 80s
Vermilion County: 1 male 70s, 3 males 80s
Wayne County: 1 female 80s
Whiteside County: 1 male 70s, 1 female 90s
Will County: 1 female 50s, 2 males 80s
Williamson County: 1 female 50s
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 447,491 cases, including 10,030 deaths, in 102 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 86,015 specimens for a total 8,116,728. As of last night, 3,891 people in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 772 patients were in the ICU and 343 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a percent of total test from October 29 – November 4 is 9.1%. This is the number that IDPH has been consistently reporting in its daily releases and is calculated using total cases over total tests. Similar to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, IDPH has been using test positivity for regional mitigation metrics on its website since mid-July. Test positivity is calculated using the number of COVID-19 positive tests over total tests. On October 29, 2020, IDPH began reporting the statewide test positivity in its daily releases. The preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity from October 29, 2020 – November 4, 2020 is 10.5%.
Case positivity and test positivity rate are both relevant and offer insight into the bigger COVID-19 picture. Case positivity helps us understand whether changes in the number of confirmed cases is due to more testing or due to more infections. Whereas, test positivity accounts for repeated testing and helps us understand how the virus is spreading in the population over time.
*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. For health questions about COVID-19, call the hotline at 1-800-889-3931 or email dph.sick@illinois.gov.
 
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- Chicagonk - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 12:39 pm:
Ugly numbers on all fronts.
- Mask up - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 12:40 pm:
I hope biden has a serious covid plan beyond the usual mask and testing…thats not real effective right now.
- wondering wendy - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 12:43 pm:
I knew three of those who just passed away…..good friends, and so sad, and there are still people not wearing masks…..
- Back to the Future - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 12:53 pm:
These numbers are terrible.
So proud of my friends and all the other people that are in health care.
- Chatham Resident - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:00 pm:
Dr. Ezike is asking us not to wait for symptoms before getting tested for COVID-19.
https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/illinois-top-health-official-encourages-not-to-wait-for-symptoms-to-get-tested/
If they could also only not put up hoops that block state employees from getting tested regularly too, without having to get manager approval or quarantine using your own time until you get your results. (which could now take days). Maybe some of those rapid U of I tests can be deployed to state offices and employees who are back at work now?
- Anon221 - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:01 pm:
Tried to make a suggestion to one of the COVID-19 workers on the State’s hotline when I returned the automated call about my test results. I already knew they were negative. There has to be some way people could check a box or something when they view their test results online (only if negative) in order to save the state time and effort making notification calls. I can understand, and totally support, contract tracing and the need to call back in that instance or if you get a positive result. But for those of us who test regularly (my case to make sure do to helping a family member with a serious health condition), I’d love to just check a box on my online results that, yep, I know and don’t call. Surely some IT pro could “make it so”.
- Southern Illinois Dem - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:07 pm:
Darrin Bailey, your type said this was going to be over election day. Looks like you were wrong again. This is going to be such a long and protracted disaster.
And now the hope that a vaccine is around the corner is being tempered by new data out of Denmark of a mutation from there large mink farms that could render current vaccines ineffective. Long dark winter ahead folks.
- Shameful and embarrassing - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:07 pm:
The state needs to do something… mitigation isn’t working. Why are we going to pretend it is until its too late and more lives are lost
- Southern Illinois Dem - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:09 pm:
Denmark story for back ground. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Denmark-finds-covid-strain-that-might-hamper-15701598.php
- Sox Fan - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:09 pm:
Things seem to br getting really bad again. This election dominating the news cycle is coming at the exact wrong time
- Thomas Paine - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:13 pm:
When your brakes fail, they tell you to try pumping the brakes and if that does not work, pull the emergency brake.
We are pumping the brakes and it is not working. 97 dead today. And we can no longer blame this on neighboring states.
It’s time for the Governor’s team to make the tough calls.
As Rich said earlier today, “3) Governors own.”
- Zim - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:20 pm:
Even worse than the depressing number of new cases, today’s death toll is the highest since early June. Deaths have been trending upward slowly but steadily since mid-August.
- cermak_rd - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:21 pm:
Shameful..
How do we know mitigations is not working? My understanding is it usually takes a couple weeks to see a decline.
- ChattyHam - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:22 pm:
We’ve lost the equivalent of the entire population of Highland, Illinois and River Grove, Illinois (separately).
- illinifan - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:24 pm:
Anon 221, my nephew lives in AZ and is an ICU nurse. He was exposed to virus (and he was not wearing PPE), so he was tested. He had a set time to go, and his results texted to him in 1 hour. They could save a lot of time to text or email results and include that on the questionnaire when tested. If positive include a message about next steps and providing a way to acknowledge receipt of message.
- cermak_rd - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:28 pm:
As I see these results, I get depressed. I look at the ones from Coles County (my birth county) and think, was that a teacher? The parent of a friend? A friend of my parents?
Cook (my county of residence) I look at and wonder, was that someone who worked at Jewel? Someone who used to ride the el? A relative of a co-worker or friend? Someone who worked in the war effort (or even served).
And I see the 30, 40 and 50 year olds. And I wonder, how long they might have lived. How many decades were robbed from them by this crummy virus.
- Blake - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:29 pm:
It may be more politically realistic for succeeding in slowing the spread to tell people to stay in the county when in phase 3 than the potential damage phase 3 holds for many businesses.
- Leigh John-Ella - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:51 pm:
Anon221, you are calling a vendor call center when you call back, not an IDPH official. That’s contracted out in order to try to meet demand.
I believe some state testing sites are beginning to add an online appointment and results function.
I agree, the call back system is not particularly efficient or user friendly, but it beats the alternative, which is the reality in a lot of states.
Illinifan, teating varies greatly by location. Walgreens testing is all online and you get emailed results sometimes within an hour.
But that’s not a state testing site. They report results to the state but the state idph didnt set up the walgreens testing sites.
It’d be great to have a national testing program and protocols.
- Candy Dogood - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 1:58 pm:
I’m going to share the mental math I do every day. At this point it’s basically an unconscious response.
9,935 X .01 = 99.35
99 X 2 = 198
99 X 3 = 297
Somewhere between 198 and 297 of those positive cases are going to be people who lose their battle with COVID-19.
- master shake - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 2:02 pm:
It’s well past time to close the schools. Keeping them closed through the new year + bars/restaurants shut might be enough to avoid a new york spring from happening here this winter.
- yinn - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 2:07 pm:
My loved one who works in health care tested positive yesterday for COVID for the second time in four months.
So far it looks like he will be okay, though they did find some lung involvement that didn’t happen last time. He’s also dealing with aftereffects from the first bout.
Antibodies, schmantibodies.
- OneMan - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 2:09 pm:
illinifan,
Was the test at the hospital where your nephew works, hospitals have equipment for rapid testing but the limited ability to do so (like using that Abbott machine the President talked about a few months ago).
For what it is worth the state requires my wife to be tested (and tests her) weekly due to where she works and then bills my insurance for it.
- JS Mill - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 2:17 pm:
A parent tried to come into the school building today with no mask. We have very obvious and numerous signage. The virus is spreading like wildfire here. he was angry when we refused him entry. I lost my cool a little and told him that we are the ones who should be angry and that he should know better.
I am baffled by people.
The news out of Denmark is very concerning.
- Lynn S. - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 2:24 pm:
Don’t blame you for feeling like vomiting, Rich. That was my reaction to the headline, too.
35/102 counties with at least one death.
And we haven’t even hit the 10th of November yet.
Man, this winter is going to be long and ugly.
I got nothing… can’t fix stupid anti-maskers and science deniers.
- Anon221 - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 2:35 pm:
Leigh John-Ella-
This is a state site run by Reditus out of Pekin, IL. They implemented the online functions a couple of months ago for signing in and email results. After your test, you get a small readout label with a couple of codes that you can use to go in (about 2 day turn around) and check your results, sometimes even before you get an email alert. At least on that site, I wish I could let them know I know and no further action is needed (again, only in the case of negative results). And, I agree, wholeheartedly, that we need nationwide coordination, but if we could start it on the state level a teensy bit more, that would save dollars and time.
- lake county democrat - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 2:43 pm:
Meanwhile the opera house in Sydney has reopened and fans crowd stadiums in Korea (for their baseball playoffs - Go Wiz!). We’re never going to get their level of enforcement, but Illinois next-to-nothing isn’t cutting it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/australia-coronavirus-cases-melbourne-lockdown/2020/11/05/96c198b2-1cb7-11eb-ad53-4c1fda49907d_story.html
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 2:50 pm:
===news out of Denmark ===
Not peer reviewed, so be patient.
- Illinifan - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 2:52 pm:
Watched the briefing, but the news stations in the Chicago area no longer cover them in full, in fact this time they showed Pritzker only and cut off from Dr. Ezike. Failure to keep this information at the forefront is one of the issues. People won’t realize it is a problem and growing until they hit the hospital or they are sick. I understand why. They have lives and need to work as well proctor online learning for their kids, but there has to be a way to get people to listen.
- Not a Billionaire - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 2:57 pm:
Southern IL Dem. @1:09
It has spread from Humans to mink and Bach to humans in a new mutant strain .Several towns are sealed off. I don’t know if we have any mink farms left most are in WI and UT. Ontario is checking wild mink. I would suggest stopping trapping now and it would save some money too.
- Skeptic - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 3:01 pm:
“We are pumping the brakes and it is not working” No, we’re trying to apply the brakes while someone is actively trying to cut the brake lines while making snide remarks about how that hill isn’t a hill.
- countrygirl - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 3:02 pm:
Meanwhile the mayor of Springfield refuses to follow IDPH and governor mandates about bars and restaurants- guess the people in this area are not important- only his donors that run bars and restaurants..
- Shane Falco - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 3:31 pm:
Orland Park is still sending kids back to school with no plan to move back to remote. This week was the first week back for students, with a new grade phased in every day. Monday is the first day with full schools. Meanwhile the positivity rate in Orland Park continues to climb…
- Illinifan - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 4:03 pm:
One Man, he went through and outside group as faster than the hospital. That said his hospital wasn’t wanting to test him. They said not to worry unless he showed symptoms. My son is a doc and he says his hospital has the same approach only test if symptomatic. I have found often in the medical community they don’t do a great job protecting the staff that work for them.
- Manchester - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 4:06 pm:
For the sake of everyone, including yourself, wear the darned mask, keep your distance, avoid gatherings and practice good hygiene. And if you have an ounce of sense, stay out of restaurants and bars.
- Huh? - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 6:08 pm:
My house is under the flight pattern for the medi-evac helicopters flying patients out of my local hospital to Peoria. Today there have been 2 helicopters flying over my house today. The second was just a few minutes ago.
Even though I am an atheist, I say a prayer to a supreme ruler of the universe asking to help and heal the patient and family.
- The Dude - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 6:18 pm:
If you think government is going to protect you before the vaccine you need to wake up. Individuals who make smart choices will have a better probability of survival than individuals who make dumb ones.
Your safety is entirely up to you. Don’t fail yourself.
Winter is coming.
- Chatham Resident - Thursday, Nov 5, 20 @ 8:03 pm:
If statewide we drop back as far back as Phase 2 in May, I am still strongly convinced that this time state employees that are already back in the office and not remote (especially all Secretary of State and some in the Stratton) will be back to work in the office. If we’re told to stay home again and work remote, I would not be surprised if this time we will not be paid for the time we’re told to stay home. And furloughed instead.