The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported 12,623 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including 79 additional deaths.
Adams County: 1 male 70s
Bureau County: 1 male 70s
Cass County: 1 male 70s
Champaign County: 1 female 70s, 2 males 80s, 1 male 90s
Clinton County: 1 female 90s
Coles County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s
Cook County: 1 female 40s, 1 male 40s, 1 female 50s, 1 male 50s, 1 male 60s, 2 females 70s, 3 males 70s, 4 females 80s, 3 males 80s, 1 female 90s, 2 males 90s
DeWitt County: 1 female 90s
DuPage County: 1 male 70s, 1 female 80s, 1 female 90s
Effingham County: 1 male 70s
Franklin County: 1 female 50s
Fulton County: 1 female 70s, 1 male 80s
Grundy County: 1 male 70s
Jackson County: 1 male 40s
Kane County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s
Knox County: 1 male 70s, 1 female 80s
Lake County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s, 1 female 90s
LaSalle County: 1 male 70s, 2 males 80s, 2 males 90s
Macon County: 1 male 70s, 2 females 80, 1 male over 100
Madison County: 1 male 60s
McDonough County: 1 female 70s
Ogle County: 1 male 80s
Peoria County: 1 male 70s, 1 female 90s
Piatt County: 1 male 80s
Pike County: 1 female 80s
Rock Island County: 1 male 40s, 1 female 70s
Saline County: 1 female 90s
St. Clair County: 1 male 90s
Stephenson County: 1 male 70s, 2 males 80s
Vermilion County: 1 male 70s
Wayne County: 1 male 80s
Whiteside County: 1 female 80s
Will County: 1 male 30s, 1 female 70s, 1 male 70s
Williamson County: 1 female 80s
Winnebago County: 1 male 60s
Woodford County: 1 male 80s
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 511,183 cases, including 10,289 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 101,955 specimens for a total 8,571,019. As of last night, 4,742 people in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 911 patients were in the ICU and 399 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a percent of total test from November 3 – November 9 is 12.0%. 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 November 3, 2020 – November 9, 2020 is 13.1%.
The Illinois Veterans’ Home LaSalle (IVHL) is reporting 3 new resident deaths in the past 24 hours. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 68 residents and 70 employees at IVHL have contracted COVID-19, including six residents who have passed away. IVHL has implemented testing, isolation, and sterilization protocols at the facility and is following all public health guidance in its continued response.
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.
Following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, beginning November 6, 2020 and going forward, IDPH will report confirmed cases and probable cases combined. A confirmed case is laboratory confirmed via molecular test. A probable case meets clinical criteria AND is epidemiologically linked or has a positive antigen test. If a probable case is later confirmed, the case will be deduplicated and will only be counted once. Probable deaths and confirmed deaths will continue to be reported separately.
*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.
- Bothanspy - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 12:12 pm:
Anecdotally, I am seeing more younger ages on this list.
- The Dude - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 12:19 pm:
I used to think JB was doing a good job with all this.
We now have outbreaks within state agencies and employees are still not remote even though they were months ago.
- Teve Demotte - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 12:28 pm:
I cannot for the life of me understand why Governor Pritzker would be out and about celebrating a Biden win (good Biden won) in Boys town recently given the rapid spread of the virus. Bad judgement on his part.
- illinifan - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 12:29 pm:
Not sure what we can do. JB could shut the state down but without localities agreeing to enforce it would be like spitting into the wind. The media is not even covering the daily updates by JB. It is up to the local mayors and others to enforce. There are not enough local health department staff to do this. Also if the penalty is talk, talk, fine and fine it is a useless penalty. I have neighbors who still think this is a made up hoax as they claim they don’t know anyone who is positive. We tell them of the neighbors who are positive, and they are shocked. One neighbor owns a local restaurant and is positive as well as her spouse. She had kept the restaurant open regardless of the restrictions. She then says she does not have a clue how she caught the virus (duh). At the same time family is ensuring the restaurant remains open. I hate to see it coming to cooling trucks being at every hospital for the bodies, and the hospitals having to triage who gets care, but it may take that to wake up the public. Sorry for long rant.
- southernIllinoisBob - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 12:37 pm:
Need to just shut us down. We have restaurants in southern Illinois that are not requiring their employees to wear masks as they are preparing the meals. People don’t see any enforcement of the regulations, so they just do what they want to do.
- Nathan - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 12:54 pm:
What I look at everyday is the proportion of death around Chicago (Regions 7-11) and outside of Chicago (Regions 1-6). Proportionally, non-Chicago counties are being hit with more much more deaths. Just because you are in rural areas does not mean you can space out more and won’t get hit by this.
- DuPage Saint - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 1:02 pm:
If there are no consequences for defying an executive order then people will choose what they want to do. It is like watching a parent yell no no no to a 3 year old. Sometimes you just have to get up and lead the kid away
- Nearly Normal - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 1:05 pm:
Prairie Central School District in Central Illinois is closed to in-person school attendance this week due to Covid-19. There are faculty who are isolating at home and a high number of students as well. The district cannot find enough subs to continue in-person classes and are awaiting test results on students sent home ill. Administration says they are taking this week by week.
https://www.prairiecentral.org/article/343278
- TiredOfIt - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 1:11 pm:
my daughters are hair stylists. they have followed the rules and have had no issues at all. If everyone doesn’t do their part they will probably be out of business again soon. Come on people. Is it so hard to wear a mask properly, get take out instead of dine in? its a pain but better than waiting until someone you care about is sick or worse.
- Ares - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 1:16 pm:
The Washington Post today has an excellent “Voices from the Pandemic” article detailing the devastating effect of the pandemic on Jerauld County, SD (pop about 2000), where 1 in 5 residents have become infected, and the health-care system is collapsing.
How many of the worst-off counties and their leaders here are fighting Gov. Pritzker the most? The people and “leaders” defying Gov. Pritzker have the most to lose by not heeding State leaders, and by putting ideology before science.
- Dotnonymous - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 1:20 pm:
Danger Danger Danger we should loudly exclaim…panic is Nature’s most efficient motivator…for good reason.
Let’s not perish placidly?
- Anon221 - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 1:35 pm:
Excellent and informative read on how COVID-19 affects the body- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/05/917317541/clots-strokes-and-rashes-is-covid-19-a-disease-of-the-blood-vessels
- EssentialWorkingMom - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 2:15 pm:
Thanks for that NPR link Anon221. I was hospitalized due to complications from Covid last month. Recovery is going slowly, this article helped me understand why.
- Downstate libertarian - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 2:18 pm:
In my son’s elementary school class (part of Unit 5) they were down to 5 kids meeting yesterday because of siblings having to quarantine. He comes home and the kids are wondering if any of them will be there next week.
If the kids are catching a clue that things are not good at all, why can’t their parents.
- Suburban Mom - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 2:39 pm:
Feels the same as working on a group project in high school and doing the whole thing yourself because you know nobody else will step up and your grade will get penalized. So frustrating.
- 33rd ward - Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 2:44 pm:
https://covidactnow.org/us/illinois-il?s=1306315
That info is helpful.