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Public Health Officials Announce 6,222 New Confirmed Cases of
Coronavirus Disease
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[November 18, 2020]
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH)
today reported 6,222 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease
(COVID-19) in Illinois, including 20 additional deaths.
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- Champaign County: 1 male 60s
- Cook County: 1 female 50s, 1 female 60s, 1 male 60s, 2 females
70s, 2 males 70s, 2 males 80s, 1 female 0ver 100
- DuPage County: 1 male 80s
- Iroquois County: 1 male 80s
- Lake County: 1 male 80s
- Mason County: 1 male 70s, 1 male 90s
- Monroe County: 1 female 90s, 1 female over 100
- Piatt County: 1 female 60s
- Will County: 1 male 90s
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Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 423,502 cases, including
9,810 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 68,118 specimens for a total
7,876,421. As of last night, 3,371 people in Illinois were reported
to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 722 patients were in
the ICU and 298 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a
percent of total test from October 26 – November 1 is 8.1%. This is
the number that IDPH has been consistently reporting in its daily
releases and is calculated using total cases over total tests.
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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 26, 2020 – November 1, 2020
is 9.7%.
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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