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rolling seven-day average case positivity rate was 2.8 percent
Friday as the state reported 2,219 new confirmed or probable
cases of the disease among 85,963 test results reported over the
previous 24 hours.
The 83,673 vaccine doses administered over the previous 24
hours, a one-day record, propelled the state past 2 million
vaccinations since the effort began. More than 78 percent of the
2.6 million doses delivered to the state have been issued. That
brought the rolling seven-day average of doses administered to
59,460.
More than 500,000 Illinoisans, or 4 percent of the population,
are now fully vaccinated, according to the Illinois Department
of Public Health. Approximately 12 percent of the state’s
population has received at least one dose of the vaccine,
according to a database compiled by the New York Times. Illinois
was in 22nd of all states for percentage of population having
received one vaccine dose as of Friday, per that database.
Of the vaccine doses administered, nearly 67 percent have been
to white people, according to demographic data released by the
Illinois Department of Public Health. Approximately 7.72 percent
of doses have gone to Hispanic and Latino Illinoisans, 7.55
percent to Black Illinoisans, 5 percent to people of Asian
descent, 2.59 percent “other,” 9.8 percent unknown, and less
than 0.5 percent American Indian or Alaska native and native
Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
As well, 40.3 percent of recipients are 65 years of age or
older, and nearly 60 percent are between 16 and 64 years old.
Females have received 62 percent of the doses administered with
males at about 37 percent and less than 1 percent unknown or
other.
Meanwhile, the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 fell
below 1,600 as of Thursday night for the first time since
October. That number has decreased nearly every day this month.
That also marks a full 50 percent decrease in one month’s time
and a near-75 percent decrease from the second-wave peak of Nov.
22.
COVID-19 patients occupied 366 intensive care unit beds at the
end of Thursday, also a low since early October. There were 190
ventilators in use by COVID-19 patients at the end of Thursday,
a number that has also steadily declined from second-wave highs.
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