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Updated 12/13/2020 8:27 AM
More than a third of the state s 171 short-term care and critical access hospitals have reported at least one week where 80% or more of the hospital s staffed inpatient adult beds were occupied.
The report tracks hospital occupancy and COVID-19 caseloads for 18 weeks between July 31 and Nov. 27. It tracks the number of staffed beds available, which in many cases is less than the total number of beds in the hospital. Some hospitals did not have complete figures for all 18 weeks.
Illinois public health officials monitor hospital occupancy regionally to determine if COVID-19 mitigation restrictions should be implemented. If hospital bed occupancy exceeds 80% in a region, that could trigger those restrictions on business operations and social gathering sizes.
UCMC Expects to Begin Vaccinating Staff Against COVID-19 as Soon as Dec. 16
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The University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) plans to start vaccinating employees against COVID–19 as soon as December 16. In an email to UCMC and Biological Sciences Division staff, UCMC COVID–19 incident commander Krista Curell said UCMC expects 1,950 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the first shipment sent to Illinois.
Those who get a dose from the first shipment will need to return in three weeks to be fully immunized from a second dose. The vaccine is not fully effective without two doses and those who have received one are still at risk for contracting the virus. Pfizer stated Tuesday that the first dose is 52 percent effective and that the second dose boosts immunity to 95 percent.