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* Press release…

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced 2,563 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including 141 additional deaths.

Clinton County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s
Cook County: 1 female 20s, 2 males 20s, 1 male 30s, 1 male 40s, 4 females 50s, 6 males 50s, 2 females 60s, 16 males 60s, 5 females 70s, 16 males 70s, 15 females 80s, 9 males 80s, 6 females 90s, 6 males 90s, 1 female 100+
DuPage County: 1 male 40s, 1 female 50s, 1 male 50s, 2 males 60s, 2 males 70s, 4 females 80s, 5 males 80s, 1 female 90s, 4 males 90s
Jasper County: 1 female 80s
Jefferson County: 1 female 80s
Kane County: 1 female 80s, 1 male 80s, 1 female 90s, 1 male 90s
Lake County: 1 male 20s, 1 male 60s, 1 female 70s, 1 male 70s, 3 females 80s, 2 males 80s, 1 female 90s
Macon County: 1 male 60s
Madison County: 1 female 80s, 1 unknown 90s
McHenry County: 1 male 80s
Out of State: 1 male 80s
Peoria County: 1 male 70s
St. Clair County: 1 female 90s
Will County: 1 male 40s, 2 females 80s
Winnebago County: 1 female 70s

Brown County is now reporting a case. Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 52,918 cases, including 2,355 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 13,200 specimens for a total of 269,867.

…Adding… From Dr. Ezike…

As of yesterday, 4953 individuals in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 1289 patients were in the ICU and 785 patients were on ventilators.

posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 2:35 pm

Comments

I think there are going to be a lot of lawsuits in the next few weeks in Illinois. Is that happening in other states ?

Comment by Silicon Prairie Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 2:46 pm
In Michigan, armed people are stalking the state house, demanding to get on the House floor. There are literally legislators wearing bullet proof vests on the floor as armed people stand over them in the gallery.

Comment by Former Downstater Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 2:49 pm
With all these data, there are still people like Breen, Bailey and Cabello. G-d help them…and us given their antics.

Comment by Yiddishcowboy Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 2:54 pm
I feel for JB. Chicagoland is still a blaze and downstate cases are continuing to grow. While not a lot, they are growing. We can’t re-open but people are getting antsy.

Comment by Southfarmllama Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 2:55 pm
This is the environment that people are demanding a reopening in. Where we’ve only recently gotten growth relatively flat, have hit plateau in testing, and don’t have a contact tracing plan. We aren’t even hitting the *conservative* criteria to reopen

Comment by In 630 Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 2:56 pm
“In Michigan, armed people are stalking the state house, demanding to get on the House floor. . .”

The Michigan legislature is actually in session now?

Comment by Chatham Resident Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 2:58 pm
Yes, debating extending the stay at home order.

Comment by Former Downstater Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 3:02 pm
Still can’t understand why a lot of the pics of Michigan anti stay at home people have people carrying automatic weapons. What are these big bad guys going to do shoot the virus? This is a collection of people with a whole of issues outside of not wanting to be told to stay at home.

Comment by Give Me A Break Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 3:04 pm
==== Brown County is now reporting a case. ===
My guess is they had cases at least a week ago but the pony express messenger just pulled in yesterday with the mail.

I haven’t been there in a few years now but when I was, there was almost literally no cell services. Even in the towns it was bad.

Comment by Been There Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 3:14 pm
Where’s Downstate on this thread? Aren’t they going to suggest that these are 141 traffic accidents?

Comment by Candy Dogood Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 3:18 pm
But by all means lets open everything up right now.

Comment by Demoralized Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 3:29 pm
“I feel for JB. Chicagoland is still a blaze and downstate cases are continuing to grow.”

Kim Foxx is conspicuously absent from the helping matters. Arrests and prosecutions are not taking place in some of the neighborhoods where crowds are congregating. It’s a hot mess.

Comment by Practical Politics Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 3:37 pm
I hear you on the no arrests and prosecutions but what realistically can they do? Arrest someone for congregating and throw them in jail where if they do not already have Covid they can get it?

And fines? With what money? Why risk the officers’ health and lives to go interact with numbwits when there is realistically no practical enforement action available?

Comment by cermak_rd Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 4:38 pm
As of this minute, there have been 62,860 deaths in the US attributed to this virus. Last week, I pointed out that the models that originally said it would take till August to get there with social distancing were wrong. They had bumped up the prediction to 68,000 then. This week they’ve bumped it up to 74,000…. still with a date of August 1st. I just don’t see how things can open up with the number of deaths still occurring nationwide.

Comment by thoughts matter Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 6:10 pm
== anti stay at home people have people carrying automatic weapons. ==

I seriously doubt they are full automatic weapons (machine guns or what some people call assault weapons); those have been banned to general public since 1934.

They probably are carrying semi-automatic rifles … which are perfectly legal.

Comment by RNUG Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 6:10 pm
Mortality rate is holding steady at .0008. Still less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of dying if you are otherwise healthy but become infected. (Model used to determine mortality rate is proprietary and may not be legally divulged).

Comment by Captain Obvious Thursday, Apr 30, 20 @ 7:43 pm
The Illinois COVID-19 death toll is now slightly more than the entire population of Cairo (IL).

Comment by ChattyHam Friday, May 1, 20 @ 8:37 am