MACOMB: McDonough County has reported cases and no deaths in the past week. A week earlier, it had reported 51 cases and no deaths. During the pandemic, it has reported 8,312 cases and 102 deaths.
New coronavirus cases rose 7. 5 in Illinois in the week ending Sunday, with the state adding 26,127 cases. Last week, there were 24,297 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Illinois ranked 11th among the states where the coronavirus spread the fastest, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University’s USA TODAY knowledge network. Over the past week, coronavirus cases in the United States have declined 17. 1% since the following week, with 543,317 cases reported. With 3. 81 percent of the nation’s population, Illinois recorded 4. 81 percent of the nation’s cases last week. Nationwide, 16 states had more cases in the following week than in the following week.
The Labor Day holiday would likely have replaced the number of other people who can be controlled and when, and when governments report the effects and deaths of controls. This will distort comparisons from week to week.
In Illinois, the worst weekly outbreaks per user occurred in Champaign County with 795 cases per 100,000 per week; Lawrence County with 785; and Wayne County with 685. The Centers for Disease Control says the highest levels of network transmission start at 100 instances per 100,000 per week.
Cook County, with 7862 instances, added the maximum number of new instances overall; DuPage County, with 1,721 instances; and Champaign County, with 1,667. The number of weekly instances is higher in 60 counties than last week. The worst increases from last week’s speed came in Champaign, Will and DuPage counties.
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In Illinois, cases fell in 40 counties, with the most productive drops in Cook County, with 7862 cases up from 8057 the previous week; Rock Island County, with 251 out of 363 instances; and Winnebago County, with 647 out of 734 cases.
In Illinois, another 86 people were reported to have died from COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday. Last week, another 104 people died.
A total of 3,696,385 people in Illinois have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and another 39,370 people have died from the disease, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In the United States, 94,748,404 more people tested positive and 1,047,498 other people died.
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USA TODAY analyzed information from federal hospitals beginning Sunday, Sept. 4. Probable COVID patients admitted to the state:
Probable COVID entered the country:
Hospitals in 10 states reported more COVID-19 patients than the previous week, while hospitals in 15 states had more COVID-19 patients in broad care beds. Hospitals in 21 states admitted more COVID-19 patients in the past week than the week before. according to USA TODAY’s research on U. S. fitness and human data. USA
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