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14 Coronavirus Deaths Over Christmas Weekend In Kane County: IDPH
December is on pace to be Kane County's deadliest month of the pandemic, with 121 deaths through Dec. 28. There were 123 deaths in May.
KANE COUNTY, IL — While new coronavirus cases in Kane County dropped to their lowest figures in more than two months after the Christmas weekend, deaths continued to climb in the county.
Fourteen Kane County residents died between Dec. 24 and Dec. 27, with another five coronavirus-related deaths reported Monday. That took the county’s death toll to 554 since the start of the pandemic, according to statistics from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
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December is on pace to be the county’s deadliest month of the pandemic, with 121 COVID-19 deaths reported through Dec. 28. Public health officials reported 123 coronavirus-related deaths in May.
Kane County experienced its deadliest week of the pandemic earlier this month, with 41 residents dying from Dec. 10-16. Since then, the seven-day rolling average of deaths has dropped by nearly 44 percent, with 23 deaths reported from Dec. 22-28.
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The state's data shows new coronavirus cases are down 64 percent from all-time highs in November. The seven-day average of new cases in the county hit its highest point of the pandemic Nov. 12 — at 595 cases — but fell to 270 on Christmas Eve. That's the lowest it's been in eight weeks, public health data shows.
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All 11 coronavirus-management regions in Illinois are under Tier 3 restrictions, which require some non-essential businesses to close and many stores to enforce capacity limits, in addition to indoor-service bans at bars and restaurants.
A region can move back to Tier 2 mitigations if its positivity rate drops below 12 percent for three consecutive days, if it has more than 20 percent of hospital beds open, and if it sees a sustained drop in hospitalizations for coronavirus-related illnesses.
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The positivity rate in Region 8, made up of Kane and DuPage counties, has been under 12 percent for 15 straight days as of Dec. 25, the most recent day for which testing data is available.
Kane County's positivity rate fell from an all-time high of 18.4 percent Nov. 13 to 10.6 percent Friday, while the region's rate dropped from 16 percent to 8.7 percent over the same period.
Region 8 has had at least 20 percent of ICU beds available for 15 straight days, while at least 20 percent of medical/surgical beds in the region have been available for three days in a row, according to IDPH statistics.
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Coronavirus-related hospitalizations are down from an all-time high of 716 on Nov. 22 to 472 Sunday, its lowest point since early November, the state's data shows.
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