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No Coronavirus Deaths In Kane County In Past Week: IDPH
The county had not gone seven days without a coronavirus-related death since the start of the outbreak, public health data shows.
KANE COUNTY, IL — For the first time since the start of the coronavirus outbreak in March, Kane County has gone a full week without recording a coronavirus-related death, public health data shows.
The county’s 7-day rolling average for deaths reached 0 on Sunday, after public health officials reported more than 400 new cases but no new deaths between Aug. 10 and Aug. 16, according to statistics from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
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IDPH officials added Kane County last week to its watch list for new coronavirus restrictions after the county hit the “warning level” for two of six countywide risk metrics the state is evaluating.
State officials warned Kane County recorded 105 cases per 100,000 people between Aug. 2 and Aug. 8, more than twice the state’s 50-per-100,000 benchmark. The county also triggered a warning from the IDPH after recording seven deaths during that same week, up from five deaths the prior week and four deaths the week before that.
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According to IDPH metrics, a county is at the warning level unless deaths remain stable or decrease week to week, meaning Kane County is set to fall well underneath the warning level when the agency updates its weekly data.
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Officials from the Kane County Health Department issued a plea Friday for residents to do more to limit the spread of the coronavirus after being listed on the state’s watch list. Health department director Barbara Jeffers said the steady growth in new cases during July was driven by people not following public health guidelines.
"We are seeing too many people disregarding recommendations," Jeffers said, warning a sustained growth in cases would cause disruptions for businesses and schools.
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As of Sunday, 305 Kane County residents have died from coronavirus-related conditions, according to state data. More than 70 percent of those who have died after testing positive for the coronavirus were 70 or older, and 178 of the county’s 305 coronavirus-related deaths have been linked to long-term-care facilities, the state’s data shows.
No coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded among residents under the age of 33, according to public health data.
Since Aug. 10, 436 Kane County residents have tested positive for the coronavirus, taking the county’s total case count to 10,296, as of Sunday. The average number of daily new coronavirus cases in Kane County grew steadily between July 9 and Aug. 9, before dropping off slightly, public health data shows.
The county's 7-day rolling average — a measure that takes into account daily fluctuations in testing to show longer-term trends in coronavirus data — hit its lowest point in almost three months July 9 when it stood at 26.3, the data shows. That figure climbed to 87.8 cases by Aug. 9, the highest it had been since June 1.
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As of Sunday, the county’s 7-day rolling average stands at 61 cases, higher than it was at any point between June 10 and July 30, the data shows.
Illinois' West Suburban region — which includes Kane and DuPage counties — remains below the state's thresholds for new coronavirus mitigation efforts.
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Regions face new restrictions if they meet certain statistical thresholds. New restrictions will be implemented in a region if it records positivity rates of more than 8 percent for three consecutive days, as happened over the weekend in Illinois’ Metro-East region near St. Louis.
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The West Suburban region’s positivity rate, as of Aug. 13, was 4.9 percent, well under the state’s 8 percent threshold.
New restrictions could also be implemented if a region reports daily positivity-rate increases seven times within 10 days, along with an increase in hospital admissions due to coronavirus-related symptoms or a drop in capacity in intensive care units.
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Officials from Region 8 have reported increases in positivity rates increases three times in the 10 days between Aug. 4 and Aug. 15, along with increases in hospital admissions twice over the same period.
As of Sunday, 46 percent of the region's ICU units and 33 percent of medical/surgical beds are available, above the state's 20 percent target.
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