“It goes all the way until November and now that everybody wants to be out, take precautions,” Price said.
John Wiley Price heads the Dallas County Public Health Advisory Committee which received details from the County Health Department Thursday on the 2020 West Nile Virus season.
Around the same time last year, parks were closed, streets were empty and people were not out as much because of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.
So residents were less likely to come in contact with West Nile Virus, which was very much present in North Texas mosquitoes according to the test results.
The 485 positive West Nile Virus mosquito traps in 2020 in Dallas County were second only to 664 reported in 2016 since the year 2012 which was the most deadly West Nile Virus season for people in Dallas County.
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PEORIA, Ill. The Peoria City/County Health Department Thursday reported an increase of 18 area hospitalizations due to COVID-19 compared to Wednesday.
As of Thursday afternoon, 46 patients were in ICU beds while 128 patients were in non-ICU beds.
Overall, the tri-county Thursday reported an increase of 284 COVID-19 cases and one new area death.
The area death reported was a Tazewell County woman in her 90s, who resided at Washington Christian Village.
Peoria County reported a total of 153 new cases, Tazewell County reported 101 new cases, and Woodford County added 30 cases.
On a regional level, positivity rate in Region 2 of Illinois has increased to 7.6%, up from 7.3% Wednesday.
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PEORIA, Ill. The Peoria City/County Health Department Thursday provided an update on the area’s coronavirus vaccine supply, as well as warned against pandemic-related scams, during its weekly COVID-19 news conference.
Due to the prevalence of winter weather in the area in the past week, Public Health administrator Monica Hendrickson said the tri-county is waiting to receive a substantial amount of vaccine doses.
“Because of the winter storms and how we do week allocations, our tri-county area is approximately waiting on 10,000 doses,” said Public Health Administrator Monica Hendrickson. “This is primarily second doses, so we do still have a little bit of wiggle room.”