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PEORIA, Ill. With just 17% of intensive care unit beds available throughout Region Two of Illinois, the Peoria City/County Health Department made the recent jump in hospitalized COVID-19 cases a focal point of Thursday’s news briefing.
Health Administrator Monica Hendrickson said the Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county in the past seven days has averaged 43 patients in intensive care, while med/surg bed usage has jumped from 106 to 130 on average.
Hendrickson partially blamed these metrics on what she called a “complacency” with regard to safety measures and getting vaccinated. A mere 30% of the tri-county, she said, had been fully vaccinated.
As Illinois battles coronavirus hot spots, the state’s reports of new cases start to ebb.
An inoculation at a union hall in Chicago on April 6. Coronavirus cases in Illinois are starting to recede.Credit.Kamil Krzaczynski/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
April 23, 2021, 11:15 a.m. ET
For weeks, Illinois has been beset by a stubbornly high daily load of reported coronavirus cases, leading to climbing hospitalizations and deaths. But new data is signaling that the virus might be on the verge of retreat. Illinois is reporting an average of about 2,900 new cases a day, down nearly 13 percent from a week ago. Central Illinois, which saw major growth in cases earlier this month, is now improving, according to a New York Times database especially in Peoria, one of the metropolitan areas where the virus had been spreading the fastest.
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PEORIA, Ill. At least five people in the Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county between Thursday and Friday died from COVID-19 complications.
In Tazewell County, a woman in her 50s and a man in his 80s passed away.
Woodford County had a man in his 70s and a woman in her 70s, as well as a man in his 90s all succumb to the virus.
The Peoria City/County Health Department said Peoria County hospitals were delayed in their reporting, and any deaths from this reporting period would be reflected in Monday’s report.
A total of 205 people tested positive. 112 of them are Peoria County residents, 69 live in Tazewell, and 24 are located in Woodford.
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