Illinois reported 14,422 new COVID cases and 149 related deaths Thursday with more than 224,000 test results reported.
There have been 2,881,721 total COVID cases, including 30,568 deaths in the state since the pandemic began.The seven-day statewide test positivity rate is 13.8%, down from 14.6%.
As of Wednesday night, 4,824 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 864 patients were in the ICU and 485 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.A total of 23,021,595 vaccine doses have been administered in Illinois as of Wednesday and 61.92% of the state's population is fully vaccinated. The seven-day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is 38,148.Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr.
"It's certainly worth a try to have vaccines ready and have then tested in the event we have to deal with further omicron infections or a variant of omicron that becomes dominant," UIC Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Richard Novak said."We don't know for sure which flu viruses will circulate, but the vaccines are made well in advance of the flu season in order to have the vaccine ready," he said.
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