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LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE, CA The U.S. has reached what health officials have called a complicated stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, with cases and hospitalizations increasing in some parts of the country despite the quickening pace of vaccination.
Nationally, the seven-day average of new cases, which had fallen steadily from its peak of nearly 250,000 in January, is rising again, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Over the week ending April 14, new cases averaged 69,577 8.1 percent higher than during the previous week, when the seven-day average stood at 64,340. More than 31.2 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported since the pandemic began.
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GLENDORA, CA The U.S. has reached what health officials have called a complicated stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, with cases and hospitalizations increasing in some parts of the country despite the quickening pace of vaccination.
Nationally, the seven-day average of new cases, which had fallen steadily from its peak of nearly 250,000 in January, is rising again, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Over the week ending April 14, new cases averaged 69,577 8.1 percent higher than during the previous week, when the seven-day average stood at 64,340. More than 31.2 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported since the pandemic began.
One dead, two injured in morning crash in Bartonville
BARTONVILLE (WEEK) A man was killed and two others taken to the hospital as the result of a three-car collision early Friday morning on U.S. 24 (Adams Street) at W. Pfeiffer Road in Bartonville.
According to the Peoria County Coroner s office, preliminary reports indicated that a male driver of a midsize sedan was traveling westbound on U.S 24, when he apparently crossed the center lane and struck an eastbound truck head-on, causing his car to roll multiple times.
The driver of the sedan, 47-year-old Christopher L. Coleman, of Peoria was transported to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria in critical condition. Despite resuscitative efforts, he was pronounced deceased at 6:39 a.m.
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Currently, 174 people are hospitalized for confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases in a Peoria-area hospital, including 46 patients receiving treatment in intensive care units. Those are the highest hospitalization rates since Dec. 23, 2020.
Bob Anderson is president of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria. He says the hospital is currently at 81% capacity, or 575 patients. Many are being treated for COVID complications.
As we get patients coming to our emergency department, and they re not being discharged at the same rate, patients get boarded in the emergency department, Anderson said. Which is not optimal, but it is the reality we are facing.
Will restaurants be shut down? Will organized sports be halted?
“We are waiting for IDPH to get some more clarification on that, said Monica Hendrickson, administrator for the Peoria City/County Health Department. “There is a likelihood that mitigations will come in. Will it look like what we saw in the fall? Not necessarily. We have to recognize that we are living in a different environment where vaccine availability does exist.”
Local mitigations will be based on the metrics, which are very different from when Illinois COVID-19 plan was created, said Hendrickson. When the mitigation plans were first put forward in the fall, we were in a landscape where vaccines did not exist. Now it looks considerably different, and we are also looking at a different population that is being impacted,” she said.