Illinois reported 1,413 new COVID cases and 17 related deaths Friday as the BA.2 omicron sub variant has become the dominant strain in Chicago.
Dr. Michael Hoffman, with Cook County Health, talks about the decision to authorize a second booster shot for some adults.Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported testing 88,065 new specimens for a total of 57,392,864 since the pandemic began.As of Thursday night, 500 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 73 patients were in the ICU, and 26 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The BA.2 sub variant doubles every seven days and is 30-50% more contagious than its original strain. Unlike the omicron wave, the city is not seeing long testing lines. "A lot people are protected from getting BA.2 because of those existing antibodies of BA.1," said Hannah Barbian, a virologist and epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center.
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