Illinois COVID Update: IL reports 3,434 new cases, 8 deaths

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Illinois reported 3,434 new COVID cases and eight related deaths Wednesday.

IDPH said"daily deaths reported on weekends and at the beginning of the week may be low" and"those deaths will be captured in subsequent days."

There have been at least 3,128,134 total COVID cases, including at least 33,592 related deaths in the state since the pandemic began.As of Tuesday night, 700 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 71 patients were in the ICU, and 24 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.

"Importantly, we are not seeing this surge - even after weeks and weeks of it - I wouldn't even call it a surge, I'd call it a little bit of a ripple as opposed to a wave," Arwady said,"We're not seeing it turn into the severe outcomes like we did previously." Arwady said COVID hospitalizations in Chicago average just 10 a day, which is near the low rate we saw last summer. Additionally, COVID deaths in Chicago are the lowest they've ever been, averaging one or two a week.

 

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